On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 21/06/10 03:25, Andres P wrote: >> >> 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 >> > > I have tested and it looks like this has always worked in bash. Testing > v3.0 on an old FC3 install showed no issues. I can only assume there must > be some bug in it for the comment in [1] to be made, but until we strike it, > I think there is no need to patch these out.
OK, we'll scratch this patch then.
