View source for Stdout

stdout is short for '''standard output'''.  It is always descriptor number 1 in a unix program.  

 $ ls 1> /tmp/ls.stdout

This will redirect all of stdout to the file /tmp/ls.stdout


== [[UBO]]s ==

Standard output is defined in /usr/include/unistd.h as a macro that is called STDOUT_FILENO and its value is 1.


== [[*BSD]] ==

In BSD based [[OS]]' stdout can be represented as /dev/fd/1 or /dev/stdout.  You can see more about this by typing "man 4 stdout" or "man 4 fd".  

== [[Linux]] ==

In Linux based [[OS]]' you will want to read the [[Manual]] pages for stdin(3) and stdio(3). This is defined in /usr/include/unistd.h