On 03/05/2014 04:46 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note the ':>' is problematic though as the : always returns true.
> Well it does for solaris, freebsd, dash, bash-4.3 at least.
> In ksh and bash<=4.2 it does return an error as you assumed.
> The ':>' construct is only needed for csh anyway I think
> which we don't support.
> 
> I notice a few more cases: git grep ": *>.*"
> which I'll fix in a follow up patch with maybe a syntax check.

Attached.

thanks,
Pádraig.