On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Cedric Staniewski <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
No, the bash 4 only construct is appending: $ foo &>> bar Redirs of the form &>, which a *single* >, are fully functional in bash 3.2 Andres P
