From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com>
Cc: saulery@free.fr, 501566@bugs.debian.org, dash@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bug#501566: [MAN] Clarify two redirection mechanisms
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:06:28 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141211060628.GA8857@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141209165431.GB5708@chaz.gmail.com>
Stephane CHAZELAS <stephane.chazelas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Let's make it:
>
> [n1]>&n2 Copy file descriptor n2 as stdout (or fd n1)
> [n1]<&n2 Copy file descriptor n2 as stdin (or fd n1)
>
> That's more or less the POSIX wording. It may not be as
> descriptive as other ones, but I can't imagine anyone
> complaining about the correctness or accuracy of it.
Yes this sounds good to me. Someone please create a patch for
it.
BTW, one of you guys dropped me from the CC list again. Please
don't do that.
Thanks,
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Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-11 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-08 18:50 Bug#501566: [MAN] Clarify two redirection mechanisms Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-08 20:37 ` Stephane CHAZELAS
2014-12-08 21:22 ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-08 21:56 ` Jonathan Nieder
2014-12-08 22:15 ` Stéphane Aulery
2014-12-09 16:54 ` Bug#501566: " Stephane CHAZELAS
2014-12-11 6:06 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2014-12-11 9:03 ` saulery
2014-12-25 22:51 ` Herbert Xu
2014-12-26 11:35 ` Stéphane Aulery
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