Re: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr> wrote:
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> forwarded 501566 dash@vger.kernel.org
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> Hello,
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> Here is a small patch reported by a user of Debian [1]. Could you please
> integrate? Thank you for your help.
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> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501566
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> Regards,
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> Stéphane Aulery
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> --- dash.1.old	2014-11-10 12:15:29.809398575 +0100
> +++ dash.1.new	2014-11-10 12:17:03.401856125 +0100
> @@ -402,11 +402,11 @@
> .It [n] Ns \*[Lt] file
> Redirect standard input (or n) from file.
> .It [n1] Ns \*[Lt]& Ns n2
> -Duplicate standard input (or n1) from file descriptor n2.
> +Duplicate standard input (or n1) to file descriptor n2.
> .It [n] Ns \*[Lt]&-
> Close standard input (or n).
> .It [n1] Ns \*[Gt]& Ns n2
> -Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2.
> +Duplicate standard output (or n1) from n2.
> .It [n] Ns \*[Gt]&-
> Close standard output (or n).
> .It [n] Ns \*[Lt]\*[Gt] file

I'm sorry but this patch looks wrong and the text looks correct
to me as is.

Cheers,
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