On 20.06.2010 18:15, Daenyth Blank wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:21, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> convert bash-4 "&>" style redirection to "2>&1" to maintain >> compatibility with bash-3.2 >> >> Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <[email protected]> >> --- > > &> style redirection is supported by bash 3, as far as I know. Maybe > even bash 2, but I don't have that on hand to test. Was this added in > bash 3.3, or does 3.2 support it?
I don't have access to a bash3 anymore, but you're right. It's mentioned in bash-3.2.48's man page. Maybe there was a bug that prevented it from working correctly or [1] is just wrong. > &>filename > # Redirect both stdout and stderr to file "filename." > # This operator is now functional, as of Bash 4, final release. [1] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/io-redirection.html
