Question about GETOPT(3)

[Peter da Silva]

[ I suggested &n refer to /dev/fd/n ]

> 	command1&command2

> is currently valid syntax in the bourne shell.

And it'd remain so. You might have problems if you have a program called
'1', '2', and so on. That's pretty unlikely.
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