Something I like about putting my redirections at the front is that if I pull this out into a function there often is no redirection, or the redirection will ta

Something I like about putting my redirections at the front is that if I pull this out into a function there often is no redirection, or the redirection will take the form of an `exec` on an earlier line. In either case, keeping the redirection out of the pipeline proper makes that transformation easier.