Upstream adjusted my patch to xdg-utils a little before committing it. Merge.

scripts/xdg-utils-common.in

 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #   Common utility functions included in all XDG wrapper scripts
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 DEBUG()
 {
   [ -z "${XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL}" ] && return 0;
   [ ${XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL} -lt $1 ] && return 0;
   shift
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       case "$(uname 2>/dev/null)" in 
         Darwin)
           DE=darwin;
           ;;
       esac
     fi
 
     if [ x"$DE" = x"gnome" ]; then
       # gnome-default-applications-properties is only available in GNOME 2.x
       # but not in GNOME 3.x
-      which gnome-default-applications-properties > /dev/null 2> /dev/null || DE="gnome3"
+      which gnome-default-applications-properties > /dev/null 2>&1  || DE="gnome3"
     fi
 }
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # kfmclient exec/openURL can give bogus exit value in KDE <= 3.5.4
 # It also always returns 1 in KDE 3.4 and earlier
 # Simply return 0 in such case
 
 kfmclient_fix_exit_code()
 {
     version=`LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 kde-config --version 2>/dev/null | grep '^KDE'`
     major=`echo $version | sed 's/KDE.*: \([0-9]\).*/\1/'`
     minor=`echo $version | sed 's/KDE.*: [0-9]*\.\([0-9]\).*/\1/'`
     release=`echo $version | sed 's/KDE.*: [0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.\([0-9]\).*/\1/'`
     test "$major" -gt 3 && return $1
     test "$minor" -gt 5 && return $1
     test "$release" -gt 4 && return $1
     return 0
 }