How can the normal output of a command be written to a file while discarding the error output?

The token '>2>file' is malformed because it does not properly specify file descriptors, and '1&>/dev/null' is not valid syntax for redirecting stdout alone.

The '<' operator redirects stdin, not stdout, so this command reads from a file named 'output' as input and discards stdout to /dev/null, which is the opposite of the intended goal.

Chaining two bare '>' operators as '> discard-error > file' is not valid shell syntax for specifying separate streams; file descriptor numbers must be used explicitly.

This form redirects stdout to /dev/null first (discarding the desired output), uses the malformed token '2&>1' instead of the correct '2>&1', and treats the word 'output' as a command argument rather than a filename.

The token '>file' redirects file descriptor 1 (stdout) to the named file, and '2>/dev/null' explicitly redirects file descriptor 2 (stderr) to /dev/null where it is silently discarded; together these two redirections independently route each output stream to its intended destination without interfering with each other.