I don't manage the docs. But a ticket has already been opened:
https://github.com/perl6/doc/issues/2111
On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 12:59 AM Todd Chester <toddandma...@zoho.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/20/2018 08:58 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> > A pipe is for communication with a process. "Piped to a file" means
> > what? What's the process you're communicating with?
> >
> > More to the point, "run" is intended to be lower level, specifically so
> > you can directly control things. Things like redirection and shell
> > pipelines are higher level.
>
> Hi Brandon,
>
> Make sure the documentation makes it clear that "run" is
> not running a shell and that Pipes ("|"), redirects
> ("2>&1") and such are all shell dependent.
>
> -T
>
> p.s. I almost never make a shell system call anymore.
> I prefer "run" and then manipulate the data myself the
> way I want to, not some awkward shell helper command.
>
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