What does " 2>&1 " mean?

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February 26, 2026
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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Originally published on Hacker News on 2/26/2026