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From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] What does this pipe do?
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On Jan 23, 2007, at 5:00 PM, youshi10@u.washington.edu wrote:
> I know this is a Unix shell command, and off-topic, but I'm  
> curious. I've been reading a few 'make' commands at work that end  
> in "|&" and I was wondering if that redirection string is  
> synonymous to "| /dev/stdout".

In csh/tcsh shells, that construct means to pipe stderr of the first  
process into stdin of the second process in the pipeline.

-- 
-Chuck