Re: [aclug-L] Crontab entry

["Greg House" <ghouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>5 * * * * /path/command >/path/output 2>&1
>
>I understand this will run "command" every day at 00:05, redirect the
>standard output to /path/output (ie /dev/null or some file).  The "2>"
>redirects the error output to a path similar to ">", in these cases it
>redirects to "&1".  What is "&1" representing????


It says combine stderr into stdout.

Greg

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