On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:47:58 +0000
Bjartur Thorlacius <svartma...@gmail.com> wrote:

> >> rc's redirection syntax is remarkably clean and powerful, but it
> >> shouldn't be very hard to hack "2>&1" support in there if you don't want
> >> to use ">[2=1]".
> >
> > Actually I find rc's way less annoying than bash's but there's a sort
> > of inconsistancy between > and | which might be there for a good reason
> > but which keeps surprising me.
> >
> >
> Care to elaborate?

Okay. I'm a bit brain-dead this week but if I remember right:

This puts stdout and stderr in the same place:
$ foo 2>&1 | bar

This puts them in different places:
$ foo 2>&1 > file

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