The command foo 1> bar redirects the standard output (stdout) from the command foo to the file bar, overwriting the existing contents of the file. The number 1 before the redirection operator > indicates the file descriptor of the stdout stream, which is 1 by default. The redirection operator > means that the outputof the command is written to the file, replacing any previous data in the file. The file name after the redirection operator is the destination of the output. For example, if the command foo prints “Hello world” to the stdout, and the file bar contains “Goodbye world”, the command foo 1> bar will write “Hello world” to the file bar, erasing “Goodbye world”. The other options are not correct because:
A. The stdout from the command foo is appended to the file bar: This is not what 1> does, because it overwrites the file, not appends to it. To append the output to the file, the operator >> should be used instead of >.
C. The command foo receives its stdin from the file bar: This is not what 1> does, because it redirects the output, not the input. To redirect the input from the file, the operator < should be used instead of >.
D. The command foo receives its stdin from the stdout of the command bar: This is not what 1> does, because it redirects the output to a file, not to another command. To redirect the output to another command, the operator | (pipe) should be used instead of >.
E. The stderr from the command foo is saved to the file bar: This is not what 1> does, because it redirects the stdout, not the stderr. To redirect the stderr, the file descriptor 2 should be used instead of 1.
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