Re: using exec to close a fd in a var crashes bash

[Martin D Kealey]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2023, 05:29 Greg Wooledge, <g...@wooledge.org> wrote:

> Excuse me now, while I go and close several open FDs in the shell where
> I tested something the other day, which I had no idea were left open.
>

It's even worse than that; try:

echo Hi {X}>/dev/null
ls -l "/proc/$$/fd/$X"

-Martin

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