[Nottingham] Preventing console starting on embedded arm-linux setup

[Simon Huggins]

Hi Nottingham,

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 04:22:55PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Ant Allen wrote:
>   $ ./my-application 2>&1 > /dev/ttyS0

> which first merges `stderr' and `stdout' and then pipes both to the serial
> port (check you have permission to write to the serial port).

Oh, no it doesn't:
[huggie at bounce ~]$ id error 2>&1 >file
id: error: No such user
[huggie at bounce ~]$ ls -l file
-rw-rw-r--    1 huggie   huggie          0 Apr  1 19:14 file

2>&1 sends stderr to whereever stdout is *currently* going at that point
in the commandline.

So you need >whereever and then 2>&1
e.g:
[huggie at bounce ~]$ rm file && id error >file 2>&1
[huggie at bounce ~]$ ls -l file
-rw-rw-r--    1 huggie   huggie         24 Apr  1 19:15 file


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