From: "Zefram" <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: jankr@ifi.uio.no (Jan Kroken)
Cc: zsh-users@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Redirection (<>)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 16:52:10 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199808071552.QAA17661@diamond.tao.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vhipvecu8dh.fsf@thjazi.ifi.uio.no> from "Jan Kroken" at Aug 7, 98 05:19:54 pm
Jan Kroken wrote:
>What does <> really mean?
It does exactly what it says on the tin. It opens the file for
input and output (mode O_RDWR), attaching it to standard input (file
descriptor 0). It does absolutely nothing to standard output, or any
other file descriptor.
You could do "<>foo >&0" to make the same file available as standard
output as well, but the standard text utilities would be rather confused
by this. It's more useful with character devices, where input and output
are largely separate operations, and there's no seek pointer to share.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-08-07 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-08-07 15:19 Jan Kroken
1998-08-07 15:52 ` Zefram [this message]
1998-08-07 16:00 ` Owen M. Astley
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