> I suspected that and will try it, but the man page is pretty clear (I > thought) that > a|b is a single command. I still think the & should bind to the > pipeline, but ...
a PIPE is a cmd, so i'd expect that too.
it would also be tedious if
cat burp | sed 's/mumble/frog/' | md5sum &
ran only the md5sum in the background.
