I found the explanation useful, about "why" it is that way. I didn't realize the & before the 1 means to tell it is the filedescriptor 1 and not a file named 1.

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weavie 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I get the ocassional file named `1` lying around.

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LtWorf 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's an operator called ">&", the 1 is the parameter.

	▲	WJW 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Well sure, but surely this takes some inspiration from both `&` as the "address of" operator in C as well as the `>` operator which (apart from being the greater-than operator) very much implies "into" in many circumstances. So `>&1` is "into the file descriptor pointed to by 1", and at the time any reasonable programmer would have known that fd 1 == STDOUT.