On Dec 31, 2007 11:41 AM, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why are you so insistant that the '2>&1' is misplaced? It is perfectly > well placed for its purpose, which is to allow the processing of stderr > but not stdout by the pipeline.
Because it generally serves no purpose where it is and would behave exactly the same without it? Often this order of redirection indicates a misunderstanding so I think people are just trying to get the OP to think carefully about what the redirection is intended to accomplish. John _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
