Re: new redirection operator seems broken

[Andreas Schwab]

Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 05:21:04PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Still does not fix this case:
>> 
>> $ echo >&2 |& wc -l
>> 
>> 0
>
> That looks like the correct output to me.  When setting up a pipeline
> with redirections, the pipeline happens first.
> 
> The manual says your example should be equivalent to
>
>   echo >&2 2>&1 | wc -l

You are right, it works as documented.  Still it looks counterintuitive.

Andreas.

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