mark lewis wrote to Alan Ianson:

ml> ml> maximus >/opt/maxbuild1.log 2>&1
ml> 
ml>  AI> What does the 2>&1 at the end of that line do?
ml> 
ml> redirects filehandle 2 to filehandle 1 which is already being redirected 
ml> to the log file... IIRC, that is... basically, filehandle 2 is stderr 
ml> (standard error output) whereas filehandle 1 is stdout (standard output) 
ml> both writting to the screen... without that 2>&1, the errors would be 
ml> written to the screen and not the logfile...

Ahh, I wondered why the errors were being displayed on the screen
instead of being redirected.. That is helpful.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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