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		pixelmonkey on Dec 23, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: CLI tool to insert spacers when command output sto... I knew you could do that, but never knew you could do it with "\|&" as a shorthand. TIL! I found this comment in a bash documentation example to verify: # To send stderr through a pipe, "\|&" was added to Bash 4 as an abbreviation for "2>&1 \|".

cmeacham98 on Dec 23, 2024 [–]

Fair warning - this is a bash-ism, so if you're writing a script that needs to run on multiple shells and/or a more primitive shell, you should avoid it.

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