11-05-2010
If you used it on HPUX then that probably wasn't right. It is a quite common mistake, and often it does not get corrected, since the trouble is that it will only get noticed if there is an actual error message on stderr (and scripts do not always get tested properly). The only time one would use 2>&1 ... > is if stdout and stderr were pointing to different destinations before and you want to point stderr to where stdout is pointing before redirecting stdout to somewhere else.
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FD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual FD(4)
NAME
fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files
DESCRIPTION
The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is
open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the existing descriptor, the call:
fd = open("/dev/fd/0", mode);
and the call:
fd = fcntl(0, F_DUPFD, 0);
are equivalent.
Opening the files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr is equivalent to the following calls:
fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDERR_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
Flags to the open(2) call other than O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR are ignored.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
By default, /dev/fd is provided by devfs(5), which provides nodes for the first three file descriptors. Some sites may require nodes for
additional file descriptors; these can be made available by mounting fdescfs(5) on /dev/fd.
FILES
/dev/fd/#
/dev/stdin
/dev/stdout
/dev/stderr
SEE ALSO
tty(4), devfs(5), fdescfs(5)
BSD
June 9, 1993 BSD