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'>/dev/null' redirects standard output to /dev/null. (the 1 is assumed)
so '1>/dev/null' is the same as '>/dev/null'

2>&1 redirects standard error to standard out.
Thus everything goes to the bit bucket.

1 is standard out
2 is standard error
0 is standard in

You can create additional file descriptors as follows:

exec 3>/tmp/output

date >&3 # writes the date to /tmp/output


so '1>/dev/null' is the same as '>/dev/null'

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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