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Oct 23 at 9:49 vote accept sylye
Oct 8 at 17:10 comment added likewise Regarding file descriptors and redirection, I've found this useful: mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide/InputAndOutput
Oct 6 at 16:21 history became hot network question
Oct 6 at 12:02 comment added ilkkachu fds are just the file handles of Unix-land, not that special in the simple cases. Open a file, get an fd, read from/write to the fd, profit. It's the cases about multiple redirections that can screw heads. See e.g. this Q about the order of redirections, but there are others.
Oct 6 at 11:51 comment added ilkkachu Yeah, the answer you linked to glossed over the details of what <&3 does under the hood. The point is that in effect the redirection has read read what there is available to be read from fd 3, though under the hood it's a bit messier. read -u 3 would be better. I tried to clarify that answer a bit.
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Oct 6 at 8:09 history asked sylye CC BY-SA 4.0