On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 05:01:31PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > > > >What about the classical "1> /dev/null 2>&1"? > > This probably has identical behavior identical to &> /dev/null, but is > longer to type. > &>/dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and &>/dev/null > does not work under dash. "1> /dev/null 2>&1" works everywhere. > The latter is POSIX-compliant. I believe that the "&>" notation is a bashism.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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