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A comment on Linux command line techniques: IO redirection and piping.

Re:Linux command line techniques: IO redirection and piping by jmhobbs on Wednesday November 03, 2010 @01:41PM (#1865643)
As far as redirection goes, this skipped the least known bit (IMHO), closing descriptors.

    jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist
    cat: file-that-doesnt-exist: No such file or directory
    jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist 2>&-
    jmhobbs@katya:~$
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