Understanding Shell Redirection: What "2>&1" Means in Unix/Linux Commands
To combine stderr and stdout into the stdout stream, we append this to a command: 2>&1 For example, the following command shows the first few errors from compiling main.cpp: g++ main.cpp 2&...
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