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