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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re: n>&m redirection and alias expansion in bash 1.01
Message-ID: <89Jun27.073532edt.11740@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 89 11:35:30 GMT
References: <JMBERKLEY.89Jun26184904@watnext.waterloo.edu>
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jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (J. Michael Berkley) writes:

>	foo 2>&1 > foo.out

(Independently of the problem with aliases): you should be saying

	foo > foo.out 2>&1 

if you want to follow "sh" usage (and bash usage if it follows sh semantics
for redirection).  Order of indirection does matter.

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4