Re: Bash Script Problem

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Bash Script Problem
Date	2015-08-23 08:13 +0000
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On 2015-08-23, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

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> I changed the occurrences of &> to &>>. According to my Bash manual (by
> Chet Ramey of CWU and Brian Fox of FSF), this means "append standard
> output and standard error to ...". However, the 10.4.7 version of Bash
> is confused by this, saying it got an unexpected occurrence of ">" on
> the first line where &>> occurred. Since this was for debugging
> information, I just deleted all occurrences of &>> and things are
> looking much better.

Always better to 'touch' such files before writing to them, that way the file
gets created.

My 'bash' is similarly broken to yours, so I do this little dance, where I
copy the log to a tmp file, then append it to the real logfile;

echo "Info - Copying /home to $target/$today ..." 1>&2
/usr/bin/figlet "Copying /home to $target/$today" >> /tmp/$logfile
cp -Pprdv home $target/$today &> /tmp/$$
cat /tmp/$$ >> /tmp/$logfile	# This nonsense is because &>> doesn't work
/usr/bin/figlet "=============" >> /tmp/$logfile



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