Comment by emmelaich

A gotcha for me originally and perhaps others is that while using ordering like

   $ ./outerr  >blah 2>&1

sends stdout and stderr to blah, imitating the order with pipe instead does not.

   $ ./outerr  | 2>&1 cat >blah
   err

This is because | is not a mere redirector but a statement terminator.

    (where outerr is the following...)
    echo out 
    echo err >&2