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Re: Error in manual for >&word redirection


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Error in manual for >&word redirection
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:36:57 +0200
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Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> writes:

> Personally I wish all the csh compatibility features would go away forever,
> but I appreciate that it's too late to remove them at this point.  But
> I think the manual should be updated to indicate that the >&word form
> just plain fails for certain words, even with a space.

Note that >&word (with word not a number or -) is a proper POSIX
extension, since POSIX explicitly leaves it unspecified.

Andreas.

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