On Friday 05 March 2010 14:07:25 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 10:13:00 David N. Lombard wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:22:54AM -0700, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:48 AM, David N. Lombard wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:43:39PM -0800, Kevin Dankwardt wrote:
> > > >> On 03/02/2010 11:42 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
> > > >> > The '|&' operator throws an error.
> > > >> 
> > > >> ...
> > > >> What does |& have to do with a network port, anyway? Its a Bourne
> > > >> Shellism for piping standard error, I believe.
> > > > 
> > > > It's a csh-ism to pipe a comingled stdout and stderr.
> > > > 
> > > > Bourne et al. use "2>" to redirect stderr specifically.
> > > 
> > > bash-4.1 supports "|&" now as well as some similar variants
> > 
> > Is '|&' any different than "2>&1"?
> 
> the former is a pipe while the latter is a redirect.  ignoring that, let's
> go with "yes".

hmm, i thought you phrased the question differently.  as Bernhard pointed out, 
"|&" is short hand for "2>&1 |"
-mike

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