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Old 11-14-2009
What is the purpose of 2 >&1 in crontab?
while we editing the cron at the end of the cron what is the purpose of giving 2 >&1
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Old 11-14-2009
piping stdout and stderr to whatever you apply after it.
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Old 11-15-2009
To redirect stderr (2) to whatever stdout (1) is pointing to (the two output streams get to be blended).
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 11-15-2009 at 03:03 AM.. Reason: Changed stdin to stdout (umpteenth time)
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Old 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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Old 11-15-2009
This is just so funny. I keep saying stdin when i mean stdout.. Smilie
 
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