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Re: expansion and redirections


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: expansion and redirections
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:28:38 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:25:47PM +0300, Telychko wrote:
> $exec 3</dev/zero    # open /dev/zero on 3
> $VAR=3               # have some variable with file descriptor
> $exec $VAR<&-        # trying to close previously opened file descriptor
> bash: exec: 3: not found

What you want is:

eval "exec $VAR<&-"



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