Carlo Sogono wrote:
You're right. I had forgotten this method of redirection as I've always
used cat >file to do this without specifying the file descriptor for
stdin. I guess it would've been more recognisable for me in the form of
Hang on, I meant stdout. =P
something like `command 2>&1` (stderr > stdout). Thanks for the
clarification.
Carlo
O Plameras wrote:
Carlo Sogono wrote:
True, actually not even man bash. If you execute the command you'll
most likely get an error complaining about the file 1, create a file
1 and re-execute it and by using the magic commands ls and cat he'd
figure it out without needing the man pages.
This is not going to produce errors because,
$cat 1>m1
means concatenate "std.input" into filename "m1".
Do this,
$cat 1>m1
The quick
brown fox
jumps over
the lazy
dog.
^D
And then
$cat m1
O Plameras
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