>/dev/null 2>&1

------------>/dev/null 2>&1和2>&1 >/dev/null区别

Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command

ls > dirlist 2>&1

directs both standard output (file descriptor 1) and standard error (file descriptor 2) to the file dirlist, while the command

ls 2>&1 > dirlist

directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was made a copy of the standard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Redirections

 

 --------------  >/dev/null

这条命令的作用是将标准输出1重定向到/dev/null中。/dev/null代表linux的空设备文件，所有往这个文件里面写入的内容都会丢失，俗称“黑洞”。那么执行了>/dev/null之后，标准输出就会不再存在，没有任何地方能够找到输出的内容。