Comment by goku12

> You can do: > > 2>/dev/stdout

The situation where this is going to cause confusion is when you do this for multiple commands. It looks like they're all writing to a single file. Of course, that file is not an ordinary file - it's a device file. But even that isn't enough. You have to know that each command sees its own incarnation of /dev/stdout, which refers to its own fd1.