On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 06:38:19PM +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> I was looking into the RunCache script and I have
> seen that 2>&1 is used for backgrounding the job
> but why not & only ?
> what is the difference?
2>&1 is redirection, not backgrounding. In Bourne Shell & friends it
means that output going to file descriptor 2 (stderr) should go the
same place as file descriptor 1 (stdout).
-- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.net/~mfuhr/Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 10:14:31 MST
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