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crmayer

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Can somebody tell me what the last part of this command does?

doswrite -a -v -D/dev/fd0 /tm/tmp/dirdep/ddeposit ddeposit > /dev/null 2 > &1

I know what happens up until the > /dev/null 2>&1 part. What does this do?
 
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it sends errors and standard output to /dev/null -- which is "nowhereland".
 
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Are you asking about '2>&1'?

This will redirect standard error to standard out.
 
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