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Re: Is this a design oversight? BASH redirection failure
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: Is this a design oversight? BASH redirection failure |
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Tue, 24 Feb 2015 15:10:02 -0500 |
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On 2/24/15 1:32 PM, John McKown wrote:
> I run with "set -o noclobber". I know to use >| to redirect stdout and
> overwrite an existing file. But I often want to redirect both stdout
> and stderr to the same file. Which I do with the &> operator. But I
> cannot _easily_ redirect both and overwrite at the same time. I was
> expecting &>| to work, but it doesn't.
Not an oversight so much as shorthand that has never really seemed worth
implementing.
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