On 8/22/23 2:59 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
Is there any way to write a redirection "Redirect the fd whose number is
in $FOO to file /foo/bar?" OK, you can write 'bash -c "..."' and
assemble a command string however you want. But is there a direct way
to write it? The "{var}>..." mechanism *assigns* to $var, rather than
taking its existing value.
If you want an extra round of word expansion, use eval.
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