On Aug 22, 11:17 am, Jan Schampera <jan.schamp...@web.de> wrote: > Mitch Frazier wrote: > > The close appears to be a special case of (from the man page): > > >> Similarly, the redirection operator > > >> [n]>&digit- > > >> moves the file descriptor digit to file descriptor n, > >> or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not > >> specified. > > > Not sure if that's a bug or a feature but it should be a feature and > > probably should be documented. > > It's not a bug. It's not undocumented per se, it's in the description of > the corresponding input duplication mechanism. It applies to both > duplication methods. > > Jan
Yep, I see that now. I should RTFM :)
