SPUG: redirect close

[Wim Kerkhoff]

Baker, Stephen M:
> I'm maintaining a program where I constantly see 
> 	
> 	2>&1 
> 
> which I believe redirects STDOUT to STDIN, but regardless of 

Actually that redirects STDERR to the same place as STDIN. 2>&1 is a
fairly standard bash trick to easily capture errors, see the REDIRECTION
section in bash(1).

> what exactly it
> does I'm aware its a redirect of some kind and I would really 
> like to know
> its scope for declaration and how to cut it off.  Is it 
> limited to the block
> it is declared in, or does this type of command continue to 
> live on outside
> of a give code block.

Wim


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