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Re: Fix `set -o posix' again
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Fix `set -o posix' again |
Date: |
Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:42:37 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
> how likely are we to have a shell that has an option that has the
> substring "posix", without also supporting the actual option
> "posix"?
Not that likely, I suppose. I was trying to be safe, and perhaps it
was overkill.
> case `set -o 2>/dev/null` in
We need the parens around the 'set -o'. Otherwise some older shells
that lack 'set -o' will output to the original stderr, not the
redirected one.