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Old 05-27-2008
mmunir mmunir is offline
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Purpose of 2>&1 in the command
Can any body kindly tell me what is the purpose of 2>&1 in the following commands.

nohup ./append_import.sh 1 > import1.out 2>&1 < /dev/null &
nohup ./append_import.sh 2 > import2.out 2>&1 < /dev/null &
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