Showing posts with label io redirect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label io redirect. Show all posts

Nov 17, 2011

Linux shell IO redirect

IO redirect is fundamental in Linux shell -- one basic thing you should  pay your attention when learning/using Linux.

3 Basic File descriptors:


File Descriptor Name Description
0 stdin standard input
1 stdout standard output
2 stderr standard error

Below I'll introduce 3 advanced usage, well they are also very common scenarios.

1. Redirect stderr to stdout

$ ls non-exist 2>&1