retitle 599871 dash: parse "2>&1>/dev/null" permissively (Syntax error: 
redirection unexpected)
tags 599871 + wontfix
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Although it would be possible to parse this differently without
> breaking conforming applications, it is not clear that that would
> render dash any better at what it is designed to do (which is to be
> fast and POSIX-compliant).

Hence tagging wontfix.  Thanks again for reporting it.

Please still feel free (anyone, not just the submitter ;-)) to work on
this on the <d...@vger.kernel.org> list, especially if you have a
method in mind that does not involve making dash any larger.



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