Hi,
> > command >/dev/null 2>&1
> >
> What does the "2" and "1" stand for, and the "&" ?
> One is standard output, right?
2 is stderr, the standard error message output.
(For example, try "make > /tmp/foo"; /tmp/foo will be (almost) empty, since
make throws (almost) all messages to stderr.)
Regarding the ampersand-contruct:
Channel 2 is redirected to channel 1 which is redirected to /dev/null.
In short: all error messages go into the big bit bucket.
So long,
Stephan
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