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RE: Why do I get a "bad filedescriptor" here? (redirection problem)

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From: "Com MN PG P E B Consultant 3" <mn-pg-p-e-b-consultant-3.com@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Phil Pennock" <phil.pennock@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Why do I get a "bad filedescriptor" here? (redirection problem)
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:05:37 +0200
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Thread-topic: Why do I get a "bad filedescriptor" here? (redirection problem)

> > Why do I get a "bad file descriptor" in the first two cases?
> 
> Because you've closed it, so it's not available for writing.  
> Most tools
> just assume that file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 are available for use and
> will just write to stdout without checking, so they'll get errors and
> complain like that when it's closed.

I see! And I thought that >&- is just a short cut for >/dev/null !!!
Thank you for explaining this.

Ronald
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