Bizarre redirection failure

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I am more comfortable with POSIX shell syntax where 
foo > fubar 2>&1 
AFAIK, your syntax should work for the TCSH except maybe don't have a space 
between the > and the &.
make test >& test.log &


On 30 Apr 2002 at 15:44, John Chambers wrote:

> I've been noticing this curious problem for some time,  and
> thought that someone on this list might have.  Consider the
> two commands from my tcsh history file:
> 
>    317  11:20   make test > & test.log &
>    337  11:22   make test > & test_log &
> 
> The first of these produces no output at all.  The test.log
> file doesn't appear (in any directory apparently). However,
> the command does run, and  the  results  of  the  make  are
> created.   The  only problem is that "test.log" seems to be
> replaced with "/dev/null".
> 
> The second command works like I'd expect. The test_log file
> appears  and  contains  all the stdout and stderr text from
> the make.
> 
> The only difference between the two commands really is  the
> '.'  versus  the  '_' in the output file name.  Running the
> commands in the foreground doesn't affect the  results;  it
> just  means  I  have to use a different xterm to see what's
> happening.
> 
> I've tried this on several flavors of linux, and  the  same
> failure  seems  to  happen  everywhere.   I  also have some
> accounts on FreeBSD systems, where I  also  use  tcsh,  and
> both  commands work like I'd expect there.  It doesn't seem
> likely that linux  could  subvert  tcsh's  syntax  or  file
> handling, but that does seem to be what's going on.
> 
> As far as I can tell, there's nothing special about '.'  in
> the  rest of tcsh, and other file names with dots work just
> fine, like you'd expect.
> 
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