On 10/12/11 4:07 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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.
You have a good point. The >&word description should make it clear that
sh and Posix compatibility override csh compatibility, so if `word'
expands to a number or `-', other redirection operators apply.
Chet
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