On Thu, Apr 25, 2024, 14:55 Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote: > On 4/25/24 12:18 PM, Clark Wang wrote: > > (I'm using the "devel" branch as the "bash-5.3-testing" branch failed > > to build for me. HEAD: 8c8daff1e3661c) > > > > To reproduce: > > > > $ bash53 --norc > > bash53-5.3# touch /tmp/file > > bash53-5.3# echo >& /tmp/file > > bash53: /tmp/file: File exists > > bash53-5.3# > > I can't reproduce it on macOS. > > $ ./bash --norc > $ touch some.file > $ echo >&some.file > $ rm some.file > $ touch /tmp/file > $ echo >& /tmp/file > $ rm /tmp/file > $ echo $BASH_VERSION > 5.3.0(1)-alpha >
Seems to happen if the target is a symlink: $ rm -f bar foo $ ln -s bar foo $ >& foo bash: foo: File exists
