From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 9 4: 7: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE8A614F9D for ; Tue, 9 Mar 1999 04:06:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 10368 invoked by uid 1001); 9 Mar 1999 12:02:19 -0000 Message-ID: <19990309120219.10367.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 22:02:19 +1000 From: Greg Black To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: sh Tutorial References: <199903082249.RAA23765@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-reply-to: <199903082249.RAA23765@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> of Mon, 08 Mar 1999 17:49:27 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message