Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!BBN.COM!jjd From: jjd@BBN.COM (James J Dempsey) Newsgroups: gnu.bash.bug Subject: suggestion: >>& Message-ID: <8908101933.AA04226@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 19:24:54 GMT Distribution: gnu Organization: GNUs Not Usenet Lines: 7 I like that you can do >& (or &>) in bash as a shorthand to send stdout and stderr to a file. It would be nice if >>& worked to append stdout and stderr to a file. I suppose to be consistent, you should also add &>>, but I wouldn't mind only one form of the >& >>& shorthands. --Jim--