[ale] what does >&2 mean in bash

[Pete Hardie]

If memory serves, it means to redirect stderr to the same place a stdout.
Useful when you want all the output (normal and error) to go to the same
file/pipe

On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I see this in a sample code
>
> echo "[statsgen] restarting myself" >&2
>
> What does the >&2 mean ?
>
> -N
>
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