What does this mean? to have the file descriptor before a command line utility.
Example,
>&2 echo "Hey there! Something failed"
Afaik, it should have been at the end of a command line utility or a program.
echo "Hey there! Something failed" 1>&2
Which at least gives a fair readability to the reader that even the stdout is copied to stderr
I came across such a line of code in one of the Open source git-hub project. Not able to understand the usage
The position of the redirection operators doesn't matter - some people like putting them at the beginning of a command, some people like the end. The shell itself doesn't care.
From the bash manual:
The following redirection operators may precede or appear anywhere within a simple command or may follow a command.