Re: Directs makeinfo and texi2html output to logfiles (issue 5645046)

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: "Julien Rioux" <address@hidden>
Cc: "Phil Holmes" <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>; 
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Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 2:31 PM
Subject: Re: Directs makeinfo and texi2html output to logfiles (issue 
5645046)


> Julien Rioux <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > I guess I made a typo and it should be
> > eval $1 &> $2                        # Redirect both stdout and stderr
> > to log file.
> >
> > but apparently my version of bash understands either &> or >&, and it
> > works perfectly:
>
> Please refrain from entirely unneeded bashisms as they make it harder to
> understand the code for others.
>
> eval $1 > $2 2>&1
>
> works on every Bourne shell.


LGTM on my local VM.  I'll test it on my build machine and put up a new 
patch if all is good.  Thanks.

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Phil Holmes