Re: [5.3-alpha] ">& /some/file" would fail when /some/file already exists

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/25/24 12:18 PM, Clark Wang wrote:
> (I'm using the "devel" branch as the "bash-5.3-testing" branch failed
> to build for me. HEAD: 8c8daff1e3661c)
>
> To reproduce:
>
> $ bash53 --norc
> bash53-5.3# touch /tmp/file
> bash53-5.3# echo >& /tmp/file
> bash53: /tmp/file: File exists
> bash53-5.3#

I can't reproduce it on macOS.

$ ./bash --norc
$ touch some.file
$ echo >&some.file
$ rm some.file
$ touch /tmp/file
$ echo >& /tmp/file
$ rm /tmp/file
$ echo $BASH_VERSION
5.3.0(1)-alpha


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