On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:57:45 +0100, David Laight wrote: > Except that &> isn't posix-compliant shell syntax (it is from csh), and > isn't supported by all shells. Except that some standard (i.e. #!/bin/sh) shells are _not_ POSIX, such as on Solaris. That was already mentioned somewhere else in this thread. So try to keep things "basic". :) Moritz