[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Bash Version: 3.2
> Patch Level: 25
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> In the following script i try to open a free file
> descriptor for input from a file.
> The script should read lines out of a textfile,
> output goes to stdout.
> This works fine till my last SUSE Linux 10.1 (sorry
> I don't know the version of the bash).
> But now (opensuseLinux 10.3) the script aborts with
> following error message:
>
> ./doit: line 29: exec: 3: not found
>
> This is the line where i try to open the file descriptor
> for input:
> exec ${fd}<$inf
That form of redirection construct is not parsed the way you
are assuming. The shell grammar has always required a number
before the `<' or `>' to specify a particular file descriptor.
Chet
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