Re: bug or undocumented feature

2009-08-25 Thread mitch
On Aug 22, 11:17 am, Jan Schampera 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

bug or undocumented feature

2009-08-22 Thread Mitch Frazier
Someone just pointed out to me at the link below that you can close open files in bash using "n>&-", for example: exec 7&- # Close fd 7 The close appears to be a special case of (from the man page): > Similarly, the redirection operator > > [n]>&digit- > > moves the file descrip