Bizarre redirection failure

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

That's bizzarre.
Why would test.log not be written unless it exists and you have noclobber 
set. 
On 30 Apr 2002 at 18:40, John Chambers wrote:

> | Now you are getting into religion. Like the VI and EMACS religion, the
> | shells are also religion among UNIX people.
> 
> Yeah, and my original question seems to have been lost in the
> usual fashion.  Recall that I asked whether anyone knew why
> 
> | > | make test >& test.log &
> 
> produces no test.log output file, although the  make  seems
> to run ok. Changing the '.' to '_' makes it work correctly.
> This seems to happen with tcsh on  a  number  of  different
> linux  releases,  but  it  doesn't  happen with tcsh on the
> couple of FreeBSD systems where I have accounts.
> 
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