What does 1>&2 mean in a bash script?
For instance, what does the following line from a bash script do?
echo "$1 is not a directory!" 1>&2 I use MacOS X. My bash script is:
if [ ! -d $1 ]; then echo "$1 is not a directory" 1>&2 exit 1 fi 1 Answer
It outputs the message to stderr. Therefore 1>&2 means redirect stdout to stderr.
