Piping both stdout and stderr in bash?

Question

It seems that newer versions of bash have the &> operator, which (if I understand correctly), redirects both stdout and stderr to a file (&>

Answer 1

Bash has a shorthand for 2>&1 |, namely |&, which pipes both stdout and stderr (see the manual):

cmd-doesnt-respect-difference-between-stdout-and-stderr |& grep -i SomeError

This was introduced in Bash 4.0, see the release notes.