busybox awk and network access

David N. Lombard dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Fri Mar 5 20:51:35 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:07:25PM -0700, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2010 10:13:00 David N. Lombard wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:22:54AM -0700, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > 
> > > bash-4.1 supports "|&" now as well as some similar variants
> > 
> > Is '|&' any different than "2>&1"?
> 
> the former is a pipe while the latter is a redirect.  ignoring that, let's go 
> with "yes".

Clearly I failed to express the complete thought.

How does

	producer |& consumer

differ from

	producer 2>&1 | consumer


beside a more compact representation?

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David N. Lombard, Intel, Irvine, CA
I do not speak for Intel Corporation; all comments are strictly my own.


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