[Techtalk] Newbie & crontab

[Terri Oda]

On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:32 AM, Colleen Hatfield wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 12:43:06 +0000, Conor Daly <c.daly at met.ie> wrote:
>
>> crontab -e
>> 30 21 * * 2   Tivo-cron > /root/tivo.out 2>&1
>>
>> "> /root/tivo.out" says "send standard output to /root/tivo.out" and 
>> "2>&1"
>> says "send standard error output there too"
>
> Wouldn't that be the same as this? :
> Tivo-cron 2&> /root/tivo.out

It's also the same as this:

Tivo-cron &> /root/tivo.out

Gotta love having so many ways to do the same thing...