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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug
Subject: Re^2: n>&m redirection and alias expansion in bash 1.01
Message-ID: <2809@solo3.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 27 Jun 89 21:35:16 GMT
References: <JMBERKLEY.89Jun26184904@watnext.waterloo.edu> <89Jun27.073532edt.11740@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
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lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) writes:
\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.

Precisely! What if Michael wanted to dup stderr to the original stdout and
redirect stdout to a file?
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