Re: [Boost-testing] Novice question about Boost.Build command line invokation

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-21 09:17:35

Voronkov Konstantin wrote:
> Hello, All!
> 
> I see in the documenation of Boost Regression
>   Tests on Windows platform next:
>  >bjam.log 2>&1
> 
> I tried to read Windows Command line documentation to
>   understand what "2>&1" means, but found no explanations
> there. Can you help me, please, and provide any link
> or explanation about what does the invokation means?
> What is '2' and what is '&1'?

It means redirect error output to standard output. The very helpful 
multi-shell docs site, http://www.ss64.com/ -- has info about it, and 
others:

http://www.ss64.com/ntsyntax/redirection.html

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