[FFmpeg-devel] portable shell programming

[Alexandre Ferrieux]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 04:06:34PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> * [...]
> 
> * "command >& file" vs. "command > file 2>&1"
> 
>   The latter is the proper POSIX-compatible way to redirect both
>   stdout and stderr to a file, the former is a bashism.
>

Worse, it is a bashism stolen from a cshism, with an ugly discontinuity since when "file" is a single digit it is 
interpreted as a file descriptor (which is a good shism).

-Alex