[H-GEN] What the...? Weird behaviour from bash

[Anthony Towns]

Hello world,

Can someone explain this?

] [aj at azure ~]$ ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash
] -rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       325652 Oct  1 03:08 /bin/bash
] lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            4 Dec 27 13:32 /bin/sh -> bash

] [aj at azure ~]$ /bin/sh
] [aj at azure ~]$ echo hello | cat &> /dev/null
] [aj at azure ~]$ echo hello | cat >& /dev/null
] hello
] [aj at azure ~]$ exit

] [aj at azure ~]$ /bin/bash
] [aj at azure ~]$ echo hello | cat &> /dev/null
] [aj at azure ~]$ echo hello | cat >& /dev/null
] [aj at azure ~]$ exit

Cheers,
aj

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