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Old 05-17-2008
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what does the operation '>&' mean in a shell script
hi, all,

i saw a syntax like this

usr/local/mpiexec -np 8 /home/XXXX/program_exe >& ./temp/out

the output will be put into ./temp/out.

I want to know the meaning of the operation symbol '>&'.


Thanks