Re: new redirection operator seems broken

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 04:13:12PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> > >> $ echo >&2 |& wc -l

> I wonder if I should modify it so the implicit 2>&1 happens first, right
> after the pipe, so any user-specified redirections can override it.  That
> doesn't seem that radical a change.  Opinions?  (I know what you think,
> Andreas ;-) ).

I'd say that if you were going to do that, it should've been done before
the 4.0 release.  Changing it now would create a world of confusion.