Greg Wooledge <wool...@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. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
