In article <mailman.8994.1410897983.1147.bug-b...@gnu.org>,
Chet Ramey <chet.ra...@case.edu> wrote:
>On 9/16/14, 3:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
>> That is one of the reasons I don't like the /dev/std{err,in,out}
>> things. They are not portable. They do different things on different
>> systems. I avoid them.
>
>I've considered emulating it everywhere, regardless of what the OS
>provides, but I'd get just as many complaints if I did that.
>
>Chet
This is what gawk does. I haven't had any complaints about this,
and once you do it that way you can claim that Bash is being consistent
across all systems. (That's one of the reasons I did it that way.)
My two cents, of course.
Arnold
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