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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Redirection quirks: 2>&1 >file  -- vs. --  >file 2>&1
Message-ID: <170@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 13:01:50 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.170
Posted: Sun Jan  5 13:01:50 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jan-86 06:54:31 EST
References: <649@watmath.UUCP> <1200@brl-tgr.ARPA> <3957@mhuxd.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
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Summary: More permutations.

In article <3957@mhuxd.UUCP> rs@mhuxd.UUCP (Robert Sanderman) writes:
>> >     $ command 2>&1 >file
>> >     $ command >file 2>&1
>I understand why the above are different but why do the following
>two lines produce different results:
>	$ 2>&1 command > file
>	$ command 2>&1 > file

Interesting!  Trying permutations, you get:
	2,1 diverted			1 only diverted
	$ command >file 2>&1		$ command 2>&1 >file
	$ 2>&1 command > file		$ 2>&1 > file command
	$ >file 2>&1 command		$ >file command 2>&1
Looks like it takes the '>' tokens from the front and appends them.
Not having source in hand, I'd not venture to say.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}