> Does anyone know the rationale behind ordering of redirects? I can't give you an exact rationale, but my old shell scripting books from the 90's use the cmd

> Does anyone know the rationale behind ordering of redirects? I can't give you an exact rationale, but my old shell scripting books from the 90's use the cmd > file 2>&1 notation. My personal belief is that it was for situations when you would do something like this: cmd > output.txt 2> errors.txt