From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (list@euclid.skiles.gatech.edu [130.207.146.50]) by melb.werple.net.au (8.7.5/8.7.3/2) with ESMTP id XAA09520 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 23:34:19 +1000 (EST) Received: (from list@localhost) by euclid.skiles.gatech.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA05484; Sun, 16 Jun 1996 09:23:49 -0400 (EDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 09:23:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Zefram Message-Id: <12801.199606161323@stone.dcs.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: <> redirection operator (was: zsh.texi) To: hzoli@cs.elte.hu (Zoltan Hidvegi) Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 14:23:14 +0100 (BST) Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu In-Reply-To: <199606152208.AAA03465@hzoli.ppp.cs.elte.hu> from "Zoltan Hidvegi" at Jun 16, 96 00:08:33 am X-Loop: zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk X-Stardate: [-31]7667.78 X-US-Congress: Moronic fuckers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"LGPbl3.0.cL1.bh0nn"@euclid> Resent-From: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/1357 X-Loop: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu Precedence: list Resent-Sender: zsh-workers-request@math.gatech.edu >I agree with that but I'm afraid that this change will break many scripts. >But it would be definitely simpler and cleaner, and the documentation would >be much simpler and less confusing. How often do you use numerical globbing? I've only ever used it interactively. It wouldn't be the first time we've changed behaviour, and the change required to scripts is trivial. And regarding the &> redirection you mentioned: I think this is a bad idea. It's not POSIX conformant (consider `a &> b c`), and it's not really necessary. It is possible to redirect to a file called "-" by doing `>& ./-`. -zefram