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According to Eric Blake on 10/29/2008 6:22 AM:
>>> - ( :; $1 ) >"$at_stdout" 2>"$at_stderr"
>>> + : >"$at_stderr"
>>> + ( :; $1 ) >>"$at_stdout" 2>>"$at_stderr"
>> What's the ":;" for?
>
> A workaround to the bash 3.2 bug, fixed in bash32-030, wher
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According to Stephane Chazelas on 10/29/2008 3:32 AM:
>> Yes. For shell portability, I'll write the first line as
>> : > stdout
>> : > stderr
>>
>> though.
>
> Why?
It fails on old Ultrix sh, which can't redirect the same fd more than once
in a
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
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> > : > stdout > stderr
[...]
> Yes. For shell portability, I'll write the first line as
> : > stdout
> : > stderr
>
> though.
Why?
I can't see why ": > stdout > stderr" wouldn't work in any
shell. It should even work in
