> Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> writes: > > > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:21:04PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > >> Still does not fix this case: > >> > >> $ echo >&2 |& wc -l > >> > >> 0 > > > > That looks like the correct output to me. When setting up a pipeline > > with redirections, the pipeline happens first. > > > > The manual says your example should be equivalent to > > > > echo >&2 2>&1 | wc -l > > You are right, it works as documented. Still it looks counterintuitive.
I wonder if I should modify it so the implicit 2>&1 happens first, right after the pipe, so any user-specified redirections can override it. That doesn't seem that radical a change. Opinions? (I know what you think, Andreas ;-) ). Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
