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I found the explanation useful, about "why" it is that way. I didn't realize the & before the 1 means to tell it is the filedescriptor 1 and not a file named 1.
by ElijahLynn 8mo ago
I found the explanation useful, about "why" it is that way. I didn't realize the & before the 1 means to tell it is the filedescriptor 1 and not a file named 1.
- weavie 8mo agoI get the ocassional file named `1` lying around.
- LtWorf 8mo agoIt's an operator called ">&", the 1 is the parameter.
- WJW 8mo agoWell sure, but surely this takes some inspiration from both `&` as the "address of" operator in C as well as the `>` operator which (apart from being the greater-than operator) very much implies "into" in many circumstances. So `>&1` is "into the file descriptor pointed to by 1", and at the time any reasonable programmer would have known that fd 1 == STDOUT.
- hrmtst93837 8mo ago[flagged]