Re: [aclug-L] Crontab entry

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

&1 sends standerr output along the same route.  Usually this command is
suffixed with a file name, which can be perused later with an editor



On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 Todd_Lundstedt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> We have several crontab entries that look like this (this is AIX, but it
> should be pretty similar, eh?)...
> 
> 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????
> 
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