Jul 17 2010

vi Manual

by Tony Chen, adchen@cs.fsu.edu (last changed Dec 7, 1993)

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Jan 31 2010

What does “> /dev/null 2>&1″ mean?

I remember being confused for a very long time about the trailing garbage in commands I saw in Unix systems, especially while watching compilers do their work. Nobody I asked could tell me what the funny greater-thans, ampersands and numbers after the commands meant, and search engines never turned up anything but examples of it being used without explanation. In this article I’ll explain those weird commands.

Here’s an example command:

 command > /dev/null 2>&1 

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Jan 20 2010

Complete source code of my blog

Features:

  • WordPress 2.9.1
  • “Elegant Grunge” theme by Michael Tyson.
  • Simple Facebook connect
  • Twitter widget connect
  • lightbox gallery

click continue for how-to install your own blog …

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