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Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 11:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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On Wed, 31 May 2000 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> One more problem with bash-2.03 and also 2.0.4-beta5a:
> 
> Redirection '>&' seems to work when I invoke bash directly but
> not when through link 

The same happens on Linux with bash 2.03.

I think this is because when you invoke bash as `sh', it goes into
POSIX-compatibility mode.  It may well be that >& is not specified by
POSIX.

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Nate Eldredge
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