On 03/19/2013 03:20 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > Is there a portability reason to use 1>&2 vs. just >&2 to redirect to stderr? > I don't know of one, and don't see it mentioned in autoconf(Portable Shell).
As far as I know, all shells treat both as synonyms. 1>&2 is a bit more explicit about what is happening, >&2 is faster to type. > The gnupload script currently uses both. Changing for consistency might be nice, but portability-wise, there is no problem. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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