On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Brad Beyenhof <bbeyen...@icloud.com> wrote:
> For that matter, is there a significant difference between > <file $COMMAND $ARGS > and > $COMMAND $ARGS <file > ? > > I honestly didn't know about & hadn't tried the former until just now. > Only if there are interacting redirections (e.g. "2>&1 >foo" and ">foo 2>&1" do not do the same thing: the former puts the command's stderr in the shell's stdout and then the command's stdout in "foo", whereas the latter puts both the command's stdout and stderr in "foo"; redirections happen in the order they are specified). All redirections take place before starting the command (and, if you think about it, must do so) so there is otherwise no visible difference. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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