Yeah this is the crazy thing about shell redirect syntax 2>&1 # descriptor redirect 2>& 1 # identical to above 2 >&1 # runs a command "2" and th

Yeah this is the crazy thing about shell redirect syntax 2>&1 # descriptor redirect 2>& 1 # identical to above 2 >&1 # runs a command "2" and then does a descriptor redirect And likewise for 2>1 2> 1 2 >1 The 2 is really part of the operator, but the 1 isn't !