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The migration is almost done, at least the rest should happen in the background. There are still a few technical difference between the old cluster and the new ones, and they are summarized in this issue. Please pay attention to the TL:DR at the end of the comment.

Merged Eli Schwartz requested to merge eschwartz/xdg-utils:command-v-portability into master 5 years ago

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remove bashisms from POSIX sh script · 3a942c88

Eli Schwartz authored 5 years ago

The &> redirection operator is a bash-specific shorthand for the POSIX
combined redirection operators >/dev/null 2>&1 and must not be used in
portable scripts under any circumstances.

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@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ su_generic()

su_xfce()
{
    if which gnomesu &>/dev/null ; then
    if which gnomesu >/dev/null 2>&1 ; then
        su_gnome
    else
        su_generic