On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 11:39:42PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > The following three commands work as expected: > > 2>/tmp/x echo > echo 2>/tmp/x > echo 12>/tmp/x > > However, this doesn't: > > 12>/tmp/x echo > sh: 12: not found > > It seems that dash has problems with redirections at the beginning of a > command, but only when the fd is >= 10, smaller fd's seem to work fine. > > I *think* this is a bug, but couldn't quite prove it (chapter 2 of susv3 > is a mess...). However, bash seems to have no problems with it, so it > seems it would be sane behaviour to allow this redirection.
Hi Marc, I don't think this is a bug in dash. From http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html#tag_02_07 Open files are represented by decimal numbers starting with zero. The largest possible value is implementation-defined; however, all implementations shall support at least 0 to 9, inclusive, for use by the application. dash support file descriptors 0 to 9. $ echo 2>/tmp/x $ cat /tmp/x $ echo 2>/tmp/x $ echo 12>/tmp/x $ cat /tmp/x 12 $ Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
