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Date:      Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:49:27 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   sh Tutorial
Message-ID:  <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.
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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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