Hello!

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Thomas Schwinge <tschwi...@gnu.org> writes:
> > These three work as expected.  But why doesn't the following one?
> >
> >     tho...@dirichlet:~ $ sh -c 'if : 2> /dev/null < NONEXISTING_FILE; then 
> > :; else echo >&2 OK; fi'
> 
> Works fine here.  Are you sure sh is Bash?

Why would sh be something differe...

    tho...@dirichlet:~ $ ls -l /bin/sh
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2007-12-25 23:16 /bin/sh -> dash

Jeez.

That's Ubuntu intrepid 0.5.4-9ubuntu1 version.  Unless someone beats me
to it, or it is fixed already, I'll take it up with them, sometime later.


Andreas: Thanks for pointing out the obvious!


Regards,
 Thomas

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