Then it was incorrectly configured by the OS vendor.
But in any case, even if all bash users were to upgrade to the latest and greatest bleeding edge version, and spend hours tweaking obscure configuration options, that solution still wouldn't be portable, as it doesn't work in some other shells.
In reply to Re^3: redirect output from a command to another command
by DrHyde
in thread redirect output from a command to another command
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