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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: multi-digit file descriptors
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:26:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211162637.GA9083@xvii.vinc17.org> (raw)

Contrary to bash and mksh, zsh doesn't support file descriptors with
multiple digits. Considered the following file "redir".

----------------------------------------
( echo foo >&9; ) 9>my_file
cat my_file

( echo bar >&10; ) 10>my_file
cat my_file
----------------------------------------

xvii% bash redir
foo
bar
xvii% mksh redir
foo
bar
xvii% zsh redir
foo
redir:4: parse error near `10'

The behavior of dash and ksh93 is similar to zsh. But is there any
reason?

BTW, POSIX doesn't seem to restrict file descriptors to 1 digit.

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             reply	other threads:[~2015-02-11 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-11 16:26 Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2015-02-11 17:27 ` Bart Schaefer
2015-02-11 17:46   ` Peter Stephenson
2015-02-12 10:24     ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-02-12 16:45       ` Bart Schaefer
2015-02-12 10:16   ` Vincent Lefevre
2015-02-13  4:21     ` Bart Schaefer
     [not found] <20150211162637.GA9083__22180.4416658872$1423672129$gmane$org@xvii.vinc17.org>
2015-02-11 20:47 ` Stephane Chazelas

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