Apologies - I guess I read something into your post that was not there.
There is most definitely confusion around re-direction by many people.

Kevin
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On Dec 31, 2007 1:28 PM, Collins, Kevin [MindWorks]
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> It would NOT behave the same. The stderr is not sent thru the pipe
> without that redirection. See below:

Correct, it is not the same in this case. I was suggesting that in
most cases the behavior is the same.

> ...
> Please note (as I said in previous messages), that the redirection
> (whether understood by the script's author or not) is doing what it
was
> intended to do: process the stderr and not the stdout in the pipeline.

Yes it was. Yes you are correct. I was just offering a reason that it
raised some eyebrows ...

John

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