Re: How to stop a cron job sending email

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:58:59AM +0000, Chris Rees wrote:

The actual redirect should be 2>&1

From 'man bash'

Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error

Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and
the standard error output (file descriptor 2) to be redirected
to the file whose name is the expansion of word with this construct.

There are two formats for redirecting standard output and
standard error:

&>word
and
>&word

Of the two forms, the first is preferred. This is semantically
equivalent to

>word 2>&1

Regards
Johann

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