[PLUG] Cron notification

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Tue May 20 21:07:02 UTC 2003


On Tue, 20 May 2003 jelque at feather.net wrote:

> ...and what does 2>&1 do exactly?

  Redirects STD_ERROR to STD_OUT.

  Three file handles are automatically assigned when you log in: STD_IN,
STD_OUT and STD_ERROR. The first is the keyboard, the second is the monitor
and the third varies. The redirection puts error messages on the monitor
where you can see them.

Rich

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