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In shell scripting, "echo >&2 "some text"" redirects the standard output (stdout) of the "echo" command to the standard error (stderr) stream. This means that the text "some text" will be printed to the console as an error message instead of a regular message. The "&" symbol is used to specify the file descriptor to be redirected, and "2" is the file descriptor for stderr. Therefore, ">&2" redirects stdout to stderr.