Timeline for Closing a file descriptor, >&- vs <&-
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| Mar 22, 2018 at 22:06 | comment | added | Steven D | @studog Thanks for checking the source! I think what happened here is I was looking at a local manpage for Bash 3, and then linked to the online documentation, which was for Bash 4. In the old Bash 3 documentation, the phrase about closing was omitted from the description of [N]>&WORD: git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/tree/doc/… | |
| Mar 22, 2018 at 14:27 | comment | added | studog | The bash man page does mentioned closing, quoting your link: If word evaluates to ‘-’, file descriptor n is closed. | |
| May 24, 2014 at 18:24 | history | edited | Steven D | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1 character in body |
| May 24, 2014 at 17:14 | history | edited | Steven D | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Formatting |
| May 24, 2014 at 15:56 | history | edited | Steven D | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 54 characters in body |
| May 24, 2014 at 15:51 | history | edited | Steven D | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 54 characters in body |
| May 24, 2014 at 15:44 | history | answered | Steven D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |