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.