Avoid SE penalty with permanent redirects in .htaccess?

[Nova]

After a server migration, I discovered the version of CPanel provided by a certain Hosting service started writing permanent redirects to the .htaccess file in this format:

RedirectMatch permanent ^/$ http://www.redirectedurl.com/

The only form I saw before was:

Redirect permanent / http://www.redirectedurl.com/

So, will this new "RedirectMatch" format result in a search engine penalty for sites to which a number of domains are redirected, or will it preserve the immunity from penalty afforded by the earlier and simpler form? Thanks in advance to anyone who knows the answer.

[Acro]

They're both permanent redirects - same HTTP code 301 - and thus they should be treated the same by spiders & crawlers.

[Nova]

Thanks for your reply. I figured the answer might be something like that and focus on the 'permanent' part, but I'm not taking any chances with this after having once had a site go from page 1 to the land that time forgot.

[SsZERO]

Actually, one is a 302 "temporary" redirect and the other is a 301 "permanent" redirect. They are both unique HTTP codes...and 301 is the ideal choice.

[ForumDomains]

You can put this in your .htaccess file
=====
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^toberedirected.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://wheretoberedirected.com/$1 [R=301,L]
=====
Good solution if you want a domain to be redirected to a sub-domain or vice versa.
It is a 301 permanent redirect often used to combine PR.