Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:02:19 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: sh Tutorial Message-ID: <19990309120219.10367.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199903082249.RAA23765@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:49:27 EST References: <199903082249.RAA23765@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> Anyone out there know of a good tutorial for the Bourne shell (sh)? In > particular, one with a focus on file descriptors. The few I find and > the manpage say that the following line opens 'temp' for reading and > writing and associates fd 3 with it, > > exec 3<> temp > > However, I get, > > ./fdtest: 3: Syntax error: redirection unexpected > > Whenever I use a '<>' redirect. What am I doing wrong? If I do either > a '>' or '<' it works. Seems like /bin/sh has a bug. It works fine with bash -- and bash comes with a decent man page and substantial additional documentation which is worth reading. -- Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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