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Old 10-17-2006
Asking about shell script input output redirection

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me what these lines do?

ls >& outfile

ls outfile 2>&1

Thanks.
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Old 10-18-2006
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ls >& outfile

output of ls command is redirected in a file named outfile


ls outfile 2>&1
if a file named outfile exists, then it is listed, and along with it, errors (represented by 2) are redirected to standard output (represented by 1), but that isn't useful in this case, you would have got any error on your terminal anyway.

if file outfile does not exist, then you will get message:
ls: newfile: No such file or directory
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