On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> &>word >> >&word > Just to clarify, the above is not a recommendation for shell scripts in > git project. Indeed not! My use of it wasn't even intentional, I was a tcsh (cringe...) user for a long time and I only finally switched to bash about a year ago. It must've been muscle memory that made me type it, but a pox on bash for not rejecting it outright -- the bash man page claims posix'ish compliance when invoked as /bin/sh, so I don't know why it allows such syntax in its posix'ish mode. > By the say, does anybody know why bash people recommend &>word form? > > Neither &>word nor >&word to send both stderr and stdout to the file is > from true Bourne, but at least the use of >&word form for this purpose is > more familiar to people who are used to Csh. <tongue in cheek>it is exactly because it is familiar to csh people that they recommend the opposite</tongue in cheek> j. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
