Package: dash
Version: 0.5.3-7
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
The dash manpage, in the 'Redirections' section, contains the following
entries:
[n1]<&n2 Duplicate standard input (or n1) from file descriptor n2.
[n1]>&n2 Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2.
These two seem to be reversed in meaning. For example, taking the
second one, it says that doing '1>&3' will duplicate fd1 to fd3.
However, trying this does the following:
$ echo hello 1>&3
dash: 3: Bad file descriptor
Trying the other way around works just fine though:
$ echo hello 3>&1
hello
This seems to agree with the bash man page, for example.
Steve
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages dash depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
dash recommends no packages.
-- debconf information:
dash/sh: false
diff -urN dash-0.5.3.orig/src/dash.1 dash-0.5.3/src/dash.1
--- dash-0.5.3.orig/src/dash.1 2005-11-26 04:17:55.000000000 +0100
+++ dash-0.5.3/src/dash.1 2008-10-08 14:58:40.000000000 +0200
@@ -403,11 +403,11 @@
.It [n] Ns \*[Lt] file
Redirect standard input (or n) from file.
.It [n1] Ns \*[Lt]& Ns n2
-Duplicate standard input (or n1) from file descriptor n2.
+Duplicate standard input (or n1) to file descriptor n2.
.It [n] Ns \*[Lt]&-
Close standard input (or n).
.It [n1] Ns \*[Gt]& Ns n2
-Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2.
+Duplicate standard output (or n1) from n2.
.It [n] Ns \*[Gt]&-
Close standard output (or n).
.It [n] Ns \*[Lt]\*[Gt] file
