[H-GEN] What the...? Weird behaviour from bash

[Byron Ellacott]

On Sat, 7 Feb 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:

> ] [aj at azure ~]$ /usr/bin/tcsh
> ] azure:~> echo hello | cat &>/dev/null
> ] Invalid null command.
> ] azure:~> echo hello | cat >&/dev/null
> ] azure:~> exit
> Why don't /bin/sh, /bin/bash and /bin/tcsh all support any one of
> these syntaxes? (/bin/csh is the same as /bin/tcsh, but its prompt on
> azure's stuffed up, whereas tcsh's isn't...)
The Invalid null command would be because &> is unsupported, and the
ampersand is seen as a command separator under tcsh, and >/dev/null is
indeed a null command :)

That one was easy .. as for them not supporting the same syntax, life
would be very boring if everything was the same :)

That's what #!_/bin/<shell>_ is for <g>

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