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Re: pipes and redirection

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxx>
To: gsker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: pipes and redirection
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 10:07:56 +0100
In-reply-to: "Gerald Skerbitz"'s message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 13:22:23 MET." <Pine.SOL.3.95.961029130246.11799A-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Gerald Skerbitz wrote:
> (print -u2 This is stderr;print This is stdout) 2>&1 1>test | less
> 
> which brought up less, with _both_ strings displayed.
> So, clearly, the | is picking up both streams.
> 
> Is there a way to cleanly do what I want it to do?

The correct answer, if you have a recent version of zsh, is
to `setopt nomultios' before trying the above.  Zsh's multio feature
is redirecting stdout both to test and to the pipe.  It's a little
counterintuitive here, as has been pointed out before.  The option
appeared some time mid 2.6beta.

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