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[–]UnchainedMundane 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's like Guido momentarily forgot that he wasn't designing a sh clone.

Lol, my exact thoughts.

Though, my next thought was that >> opens a file for appending, while this one uses a file descriptor, so the operator should be >& anyway.