Re: A small doubt

[Joel Mayes <joel_mayes@dingoblue.net.au>]

<shyamk@eth.net> writes:

> Good Morning/Evening  to all,
>          I guess that it is standard in Unixes that :
> 0 : STDIN : keyborad
> 1 : STDOUT : monitor
> 2 : STDERR : error output device
> 
> If this much can be accepted , and this is true for Linux verssions , too ,
> then how come I am given an error by my Linux machine for example :
> [shyam @shyam shyam] cat < 0
> Sample
> ^d
> 
> Can not open 0 : No file or directory
> [shyam @shyam shyam]
> 
> The same occurs for 1 (STDOUT) also.

You've got the right idea, but the format is to for
example save error mesages to a file

foobar 2> errors.log
       ^^

hope this helps

Joel