Error in dash(1) manual in <& and >& descriptions
Bug #2051420 reported by
Valery Ushakov
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dash (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
$ man dash | grep '[<>]&n'
[n1]<&n2 Copy file descriptor n2 as stdout (or fd n1). fd n2.
[n1]>&n2 Copy file descriptor n2 as stdin (or fd n1). fd n2.
The text looks mangled with orphaned "fd n2" not making any sense.
The text has stdout and stdin confused/swapped.
dash.1 says "stdout" for <& - compare:
NetBSD sh.1 says
[n1]<& n2 Redirect standard input (or n1) from a duplicate of file descriptor n2.
OpenGroup text says:
2.7.5 Duplicating an Input File Descriptor
The redirection operator:
[n]<&word
shall duplicate one input file descriptor from another, or shall close one.
affects: | boinc (Ubuntu) → dash (Ubuntu) |
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