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 file descriptor n, >> or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not >> specified. > > Not sure if that's a bug or a feature but it should be a feature and > probably should be documented.
It's not a bug. It's not undocumented per se, it's in the description of the corresponding input duplication mechanism. It applies to both duplication methods. Jan
