On Tue 30 Oct 2012, Bill Meahan wrote: > On 10/30/2012 01:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote: > > >filename 2>&1 > > This has been the correct Bourne shell (POSIX) syntax for many > years. I think it goes all the way back to Bell Labs V7 IIRC > > >instead of &>filename. > > is a "bash-ism"
FWIW, Debian and Ubuntu have a package ‘devscripts’ which includes a program ‘checkbashisms’ to catch such things (Ubuntu started using dash as the default sh back in 2006). Ubuntu also has some advice on strict-POSIX shell scripting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh#I_am_a_developer._How_can_I_avoid_this_problem_in_future.3F Pont ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
