busybox awk and network access

David N. Lombard dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Fri Mar 5 15:13:00 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:22:54AM -0700, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

Is '|&' any different than "2>&1"?

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