Re: |& in bash?

[Bob Proulx]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:56:31AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > By that logic,
> > [...alternate possibility omitted...]
> 
> So, in chronological order:
> [...list of actions omitted...]

I think the take-away here is that the shell evolved to require 142
unique command line scanning actions (obviously I am greatly
exagerating that number) in order to perform the complex task that it
must perform.  That is more steps than the human brain is casually
comfortable remembering.

As tired and sleepy humans our brains would like the number of actions
to be no greater than 2 in order to easily hold it in our head.  We
stretch it to 3, to 4 to 5 but at some point we run out of fingers and
the number might as well actually be 142.  By the time we reach the
number of steps that are really needed, what the shell does, it is too
many and doesn't stick in our heads.

Perhaps there is a one-sheet poster hint sheet with all of the shell
command line scanning steps nicely illustrated that we could post on
the wall so that we can glance up and refresh our memory of it when
needed.  Something like the [fill in your favorite programming
language here] operator precedence table.  (If you looked over at your
copy next to you then you know what I am talking about.)

Bob