Thomas Adam wrote:
2> says to direct stderr &1 means to duplicate it to stdout
There's also the important point that this does something somewhat different:-)
2>1 from 2>&1
so the result you get when doing 2>&1 is that _both_ standard output and standard error are shown.
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