busybox awk and network access

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Fri Mar 5 11:22:54 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:48 AM, David N. Lombard wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:43:39PM -0800, Kevin Dankwardt wrote:
>> On 03/02/2010 11:42 AM, Yan Seiner wrote:
>> >
>> > The '|&' operator throws an error.
>> ...
>> What does |& have to do with a network port, anyway? Its a Bourne
>> Shellism for piping standard error, I believe.
>
> It's a csh-ism to pipe a comingled stdout and stderr.
>
> Bourne et al. use "2>" to redirect stderr specifically.

bash-4.1 supports "|&" now as well as some similar variants
-mike


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