Hi,

On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 22:13 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
[...]
> after the "fix" for bug #461653 I get tons of errors in my scripts for
> redirecting messages to stderr:
> 
> ,----
> | possible bashism in baz line 13 (should be >word 2>&1):
> | echo "foobar" >&2
> `----
> 
> According to
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html,
> sections 2.7.5 and 2.7.6, the constructions <&word and >&word are
> perfectly valid /bin/sh syntax.  Please don't complain about them.

Indeed (although the bash manpage doesn't exactly help the impression of
>& being bash-specific). So far as I can see, however, &> /is/ a
bashism, so I'll amend the test to just check for that.

Adam



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