On 1/18/13 4:10 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> In scripts it breaks POSIX, conflicts with the coproc operator in kshes, and
> applies the redirections in an unintuitive order since the same operator
> redirects stdout first, then applies the stderr redirect after other
> redirections. It isn't very common to dump multiple streams into one pipe. I
> suggest avoiding |&.
It doesn't `break' Posix. Posix doesn't say anything about it, so it's
simply undefined.
It's syntactic sugar. A parser macro, if you will.
Chet
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