On 2/24/15 1:32 PM, John McKown wrote:
> I run with "set -o noclobber". I know to use >| to redirect stdout and
> overwrite an existing file. But I often want to redirect both stdout
> and stderr to the same file. Which I do with the &> operator. But I
> cannot _easily_ redirect both and overwrite at the same time. I was
> expecting &>| to work, but it doesn't.
Not an oversight so much as shorthand that has never really seemed worth
implementing.
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