On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 06:13:38PM -0400, Jason Tackaberry wrote: > > I think the correct solution would be is to invoke /bin/bash explicitly. > Because maybe the default shell is /bin/mycrappyshell that doesn't even > support 2> syntax :) > If a shell is not posix compatible is not worth to support it. 2> syntax is in the posix standard and I think every shell in the world supports it, even posix non compatible ones. In general, in Unix I think there are more posibilities of having a posix compatible shell in the system than to have bash. If the shell script does a lot of things the capabilities of bash are great but in this case depend on posix is better than to depend on bash.
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