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Hi, thanks for replying
I tried both
$ getopt --help 2> &1 | grep long > /dev/null
$ getopt --help 2>&1 | grep long > /dev/null
And got the "Ambiguous output redirect" message., and up arrow in both
instances showed the code as "2 > & 1"
Unless you meant ?
$ getopt --help "2>&1"
 -- 2>&1




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