On 10/12/2011 02:07 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
Even using a space is not sufficient to force a valid file descriptor number to be treated as a filename:imadev:~$ foo>& 1 stdout stderr imadev:~$ ls -l 1 1 not found
If you want 'word' treated as a filename, then express it as a filename. It's still possible to write to a file named '1':
foo >&./1 -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
