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Re: piping error output in Bash 1.04

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From: Chet Ramey
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1990 00:17
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In article <5877@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> lupton@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Robert Lupton) writes:

>	foo |& bar

>I'd like to see this added, but Brian says that he's unconvinced. I see no
>reason not to add it, although you can of course achieve the same thing
>if you can remember where to put all of the &'s. As an ex-csh user, I'd
>like the compatibilotyu and consistency. What do you think?

It's so easy to do it with the regular bash features that I don't think the
extra code is warranted:

foo 2>&1 | bar

I think csh compatibility should not be a goal.  Bash is not csh; it's not
even a csh clone.  I think ksh compatibility should be a goal (the useful
features of ksh, that is).

Chet Ramey
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Subject: Re: piping error output in Bash 1.04
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