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Re: eval doesn't close file descriptor?
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Matei David |
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Re: eval doesn't close file descriptor? |
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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:34:40 -0500 |
Wow, thanks, I didn't know that. So this syntax achieves a bit more than I
asked for- it allows you to get a new unused file descriptor, right? It
seems that the only useful way to use a non-closing form (>&-, <&-) is with
exec, as in 'exec {new_fd}>&2'. (Why would I want the fd in a variable
otherwise.)
Too bad the "natural" syntax 'llfd $x>&-' doesn't work, but I guess this
will do.
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:07:06AM -0500, Matei David wrote:
> > On a different but related note, I hate having to do eval to manipulate
> an
> > fd stored in a variable. Why doesn't 'llfd $x>&-' work, especially since
> > 'llfd >&$x' works just fine... so by the time >& is handled, the variable
> > substitutions seem to be done already.
>
> Each redirection that may be preceded by a file descriptor number may
> instead be preceded by a word of the form {varname}. In this case,
> for each redirection operator except >&- and <&-, the shell will
> allocate a file descriptor greater than 10 and assign it to varname.
> If >&- or <&- is preceded by {varname}, the value of varname defines
> the file descriptor to close.
>
> This was added in Bash 4.1.
>
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