Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mtxinu!ed
From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: a.out 1> file.out 2> file.err in cs
Message-ID: <680@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 17:33:23 GMT
References: <4470006@hpindda.HP.COM> <216100007@s.cs.uiuc.edu> <182@celerity.UUCP>
Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley
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>>Is there any real reason *why* the csh didn't use the Bourne shell
>>notation for file redirection? I find the #> notation simple, clean,
>>and easy to use, whereas the csh version is obtuse and less powerful.

The csh notation preceded the availability of the Bourne shell.  By
the time Bourne's notation was known, there were already too many
users of the >& notation.

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