11-15-2009
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Originally Posted by
Scrutinizer
To redirect stderr (2) to whatever stdin (1) is pointing to (the two output streams get to be blended).
A small correction, it is stdout ( 1 ) -- Not stdin.
So, To redirect stderr to stdout.
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