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

The token `>2>file` is not valid redirection syntax, and `1&>/dev/null` would send stdout to null rather than to a file.

The `<` operator performs input redirection, not output redirection, and this syntax does not write command output to any file.

`> discard-error > file` is not valid shell syntax; you cannot chain two `>` redirects this way to control stdout and stderr separately.

`2&>1` is not valid syntax (the correct form is `2>&1`), the word `output` is treated as a filename argument rather than a redirect target, and the logic is inverted from the requirement.

The syntax `command >file 2>/dev/null` correctly redirects file descriptor 1 (stdout) to the named file using `>file`, and separately redirects file descriptor 2 (stderr) to `/dev/null` using `2>/dev/null`, which discards it. These are two independent redirections applied in sequence, achieving exactly the desired behavior.