[OT] What does this pipe do? (fwd)
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Jan 24 02:44:06 UTC 2007
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Robert Huff wrote:
>
> youshi10 at u.washington.edu writes:
>
>> I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm
>> curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end
>> in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is
>> synonymous to "| /dev/stdout".
>
> That's (t)csh-speak for "send both stdout and stderr to the
> pipe". '|' only covers stdout.
>
>
> Robert Huff
No similar shortened command for bash/sh, other than &1>/dev/stdout
&2>/dev/stdout?
-Garrett
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