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From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert)
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Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of sh
To: wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1995 23:01:02 +0100 (MET)
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> 	cat foo0 >& foo1
> 
> sh responds with:
> 
> 	Syntax error: bad fd number

For sh type shells (sh, ash, bash) you'll need to use that form :

foo >foo1 2>&1

The syntax you used is for csh-type shells.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT     -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-     roberto@FreeBSD.ORG
   FreeBSD keltia 2.1.0-Development #1: Mon Mar  6 23:55:18 MET 1995