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Re: <> redirection operator

On Jun 3,  4:10pm, Clint Adams wrote:
}
} Is this doing what it's meant to do?

Yes.

<> WORD
     Open file WORD for reading and writing as standard input.
                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

All this means is that fd 0 is O_RDWR rather than O_RDONLY.  It still
opens exactly one descriptor.

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