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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers /dev/null 2>&1 question Post 35709 by BAM on Tuesday 29th of April 2003 09:14:02 AM
Old 04-29-2003
/dev/null 2>&1 question
Hi,

suppose you have the following line at your crontab :

5 * * * * /usr/mine/script > /dev/null 2>&1

now i understood that the " > /dev/null 2>&1 outputs both Standard outpout and Standard Error messages to the /dev/null device or file...

the first part , " > /dev/null " transfers the stdout messages to the /dev/null, but i am missing the part where the stderr is also dumped at dev/null.....

2(is stderr) >(send) &1 (stdout)...

i am not understanding how you send stdout first to dev/null and then send stderr to stdout which in turn will be sent to dev/null too ???

Thanks.
 

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