No, it's from left to right. It's basically just syntax for a series of dup2() calls. "4>&1 1>/dev/null" means: streams[4] = streams[1]; streams[1] = open("/

No, it's from left to right. It's basically just syntax for a series of dup2() calls. "4>&1 1>/dev/null" means: streams[4] = streams[1]; streams[1] = open("/dev/null");