From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-09-22T14:40:38+09:00
Subject: Re: How to output result to text file?

nkb wrote:
> Fabulous! This works! What exactly does '2' means? Where do I get info 
> about such thing as '2' or '3' or ??

:) This is a Unix or Linux shellism, unrelated to Ruby as such. Read
about bash or whatever shell you're using.

The '2' comes from the fact that standard error is file descriptor 2
(0 being stdin and 1 stdout).

Hal


> Thanks!
> 
>> ruby mytestscript.rb 2> output.txt
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>> James
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