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To:	rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: Question about redirection
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 15 Jul 92 06:44:45 EDT." <9207151044.AA28299@dahlie.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 1992 07:00:34 -0400
From:	Tim.Goodwin@uknet.ac.uk
Message-Id: <92Jul15.070129edt.2230@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu>

>Could some kind soul explain this to me ?
>	{ echo stderr >[1=2]; echo stdout } >[2=1] > /dev/null
>	stderr
>	{ echo stderr >[1=2]; echo stdout } |[2=1] cat > /dev/null
>	stdout
>	<waiting for input>


Try

	{ echo stderr >[1=2]; echo stdout } |[2=0] cat > /dev/null


[ Don't ask how long it took me to realise the mistake :-(. ]

Tim.