On Fri, 5 Jul 2019 at 08:44, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:
> (yada yada) |& curl -sSF 'f:1=<-' ix.io
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:42:22 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> I was puzzled to see the '&' in your command above. I'd have thought that
> saying
> (yada yada) | curl -sSF 'f:1=<-' ix.io
> would do the trick
In bash(1), |& is one operator, not two.
From the manual:
> If |& is used, command's standard error, in addition to its standard
> output, is connected to command2's standard input through the pipe; it
> is shorthand for 2>&1 |.
On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:42:22 +0100, Victor Churchill wrote:
> [I'd have thought that] adding the ampersand would, if anything, cause
> it to break: "pipe this lot to nothing, and while you're about it
> run this curl with no stdin"
I think that would be the meaning if you were to put a space between | and &:
(yada yada) | & curl -sSF 'f:1=<-' ix.io
But that form produces a syntax error.
$ echo "dogs" | & cat
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
Patrick
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