Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/11/13 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2013-06-11 08:38, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>
>>> I just tried both on Debian 6:
>>>
>>> nick@debian6:~$ cat 1< /dev/null
>>> cfws
>>> cat: write error: Bad file descriptor
>>> nick@debian6:~$ echo meh 1< /dev/null
>>> bash: echo: write error: Bad file descriptor
>>>
>>> Maybe OSX behaves differently?
>> I get the same on Mac OS X 10.6.3 using bash. Is Andrei perhaps using
>> another shell?
>
> I use zsh. Indeed under bash I can reproduce the failure. But if I run
> the printf-based test, it exits successfully.
>
Note that for zsh, "echo" is a builtin command, whereas bash calls
the /usr/bin/echo executable...
Jerome
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