[vox-tech] quick, stupid bash question

[Peter Jay Salzman]

begin nbs <nbs@sonic.net> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 11:11:19AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> > ok, i should know this...
> > 
> > 
> > this redirects stderr to stdout and pipes the whole thing to grep:
> > 
> >    strace lsof 2>&1 | grep System
> 
> Try something like:
> 
>      strace lsof 2>&1 1> /dev/null | grep
 
ok, haven't tried this, but this looks to me like:

put stderr into stdout
redirect stdout (and therefore stderr) into /dev/null
pipe stdout (which should be null) to grep.

yet it works.  where is my thinking going wrong?

pete