Configuration Information [Automatically generated, do not change]:
Machine: x86_64
OS: linux-gnu
Compiler: gcc
Compilation CFLAGS: -DPROGRAM='bash' -DCONF_HOSTTYPE='x86_64'
-DCONF_OSTYPE='linux-gnu' -DCONF_MACHTYPE='x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'
-DCONF_VENDOR='unknown'
-DLOCALEDIR='/scratch/edqui
On 7/11/16 6:02 PM, Carl Edquist wrote:
> Bash Version: 4.3
> Patch Level: 46
> Release Status: release
>
> Description:
> The docs say:
>
> Bash handles several filenames specially when they are
> used in redirections, as described in the following table:
>
> /d
Hi Chet, thanks for the reply!
These semantic differences do exist with the Linux implementation of
/dev/fd, but not with other implementations. The BSD and Mac OS X
versions, for instance, behave more or less as if they duplicate the
file descriptor.
Yes, *BSDs have dup semantics for opening
The second beta release of bash-4.4 is now available with the URL
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.4-beta2.tar.gz
and via git from
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/?h=bash-4.4-testing
This tar file includes the formatted documentation (you should be able to
generate updated versions
