RE: Feature: disallow | >

[Ed Avis]

Thanks.  So 'whoami | >out' working is a natural consequence of the fact that 
'>out' is a command by itself.
IMHO it would have been better for the Unix shell to forbid that, and require 
': >out' if you really do want to run the null command and redirect its output, 
but it's too late now.

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Ed Avis <eda@waniasset.com>

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