Three Streams: Output, Errors and Input
Every command has three streams, output, errors and input, and redirection sends each where you choose, with 2> for errors, &> or > file 2>&1 for both together, /dev/null to throw them away and < to read a file in.
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- Category
- Bash
- Level
- Apprentice
- Tags
- dev-null, linux, redirection, standard-streams, unix