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Which of these commands redirects the output of cat testfile to redirfile without overwriting the contents of redirfile?

  1. cat testfile >redirfile

  2. cat testfile >>redirfile

  3. cat testfile 1> redirfile

  4. cat testfile 2> redirfile
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Explanation

The >> operator redirects output and appends to a file without overwriting existing contents. The single > operator would overwrite. 1> redirects stdout specifically (overwrites), and 2> redirects stderr (also overwrites).

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