[NTLUG:Discuss] An Oddity (bug) in Redhat 7.1

[Steve Baker]

Kenneth Loafman wrote:

> Nope.  Does not happen on command line.  Only happens with subshells
> like the ones I supplied, or with system() calls in Python, etc.  sh is
> symlinked to bash, so the name difference may be the problem.  Still
> chasing.  If you've got access to 7.1 and 7.2 I'd appreciate a run of
> the tests from the first message in this thread.

So probably, they changed the behaviour for the benefit of command-line
users but made the shell revert to "standard" behaviour when running
scripts....inducing a bug in the process.

Really and truly, scripts that have "#!/bin/sh" at the top should
stick to Bourne shell syntax - which doesn't allow *either* &> or >&.


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