Re: Bug#501566: dash: details of redirection/duplication in manpage are reversed

[Stephane Chazelas <stephane.chazelas@xxxxxxxxx>]

2014-11-11 14:23:21 +0100, Stephen Shirley:
[...]
> "[n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or n1) to n2."
> 
> It doesn't cover the case where n2 is later changed, and how n1 does
> not follow this, but it's the simplest fix i see.
[...]

That's ambiguous.

Maybe:

[n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same "open
            file description" as on fd n2.

[n1]>&n2    Redirect standard output (or fd n1) to the same
            resource as open on fd n2.

[n1]>&n2    Copy fd n2 as stdout (or fd n1)

?

-- 
Stephane



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