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Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:18:03 +0200
Subject: /dev/stderr invalid with nested and chained redirections
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I have a script which does not find /dev/stderr when its stderr is
redirected and piped. The minimal reproduction follows below. This is a
verbatim copy from the terminal with edited-in comments prefixed with
hashes.

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW xxxxxxxx 2.8.1(0.312/5/3) 2017-07-03 14:06 i686 Cygwin
$ bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.4.12(3)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
[...]
########################################################
$ cat say-something.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo something > /dev/stderr
########################################################

############### This is the error:
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr)) |& cat
./say-something.sh: line 2: /dev/stderr: No such file or directory

############### Variants without sub-shell, piping or redirection work:
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr)) | cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr))
something
$ x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stderr) |& cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh > /dev/stderr)) |& cat
something
$ (x=$(./say-something.sh 2> /dev/stdout)) |& cat
$


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