Karl Berry asked: > Is there a portability reason to use 1>&2 vs. just >&2 to redirect to stderr? > I don't know of one, and don't see it mentioned in autoconf(Portable Shell). > The gnupload script currently uses both.
I'm not aware of any portability problem here. It's more a question of style. I use 1>&2 and 2>&1 quite frequently, and would find it odd to omit the '1' in one case but not in the other case. Bruno
