On 4/13/16 1:54 AM, George Caswell wrote: > Personally, I don't think it makes sense for a redirection on a command to > persist beyond the scope of that command. A redirection with a > dynamically-assigned fd is basically equivalent to a redirection to a > numbered fd.
Then why have it? There's not enough value in making a construct that is slightly different but functionally equivalent available unless it provides something new. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/