On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
> 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. > Thanks for the information. I understand the cost of maintenance vs. the utility of what is likely not used very often. > > -- > ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer > ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates > Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu > http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ > -- He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown
