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Re: redirections preceded by a word with builtins inconsistent


From: Greg Wooledge
Subject: Re: redirections preceded by a word with builtins inconsistent
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:37:37 -0400
User-agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i

On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:48:47PM +0300, adonis papaderos wrote:
> > >     When using redirections preceded by a word on builtins
> > >         'i.e. : {varname}<&1'
> > >         the redirection persists to the current shell.

That surprises me, but if Chet says it's not a bug, then so be it.

Simply stop doing it.  It's not good shell code.  If you want to open
or close an FD for the current shell, use exec.

exec {varname}<&1
exec {varname}<&-



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