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Re: 'foo > >(bar)' doesn't set $! for external foo not invoked via 'comm
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Rusty Bird |
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Re: 'foo > >(bar)' doesn't set $! for external foo not invoked via 'command' |
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Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:14:39 +0000 |
Oğuz:
> `>&"$out" is very ugly though, it'd be nice if `{var}' thing worked at
> the RHS of redirection operator, like `>&{var}`, which, on bash 5.0.11,
> ignores `&' -another bug?- and redirects stdout to a file named `{var}'.
Probably more backwards compatibility than a bug - '>&word' (with word
neither a number nor a dash) is an alternative form of '&>word':
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirections.html#Redirecting-Standard-Output-and-Standard-Error
Rusty
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