Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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.
Actually, since the release is out there, changing it now is best -- it's been less than three weeks, and there's hardly the momentum that will be built up later. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
