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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to pipe stderr to a command in Bourne or Korn shell
Message-ID: <13411:Oct920:26:3590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 9 Oct 90 20:26:35 GMT
References: <1990Oct8.165133.17187@cti-software.nl> <668@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
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In article <668@atcmpe.atcmp.nl> henk@atcmp.nl (Henk M. Keller) writes:
> 	3>&1 will probably be implemented as
> 		close(3);	/* To ensure 3 is free */
> 		fcntl(1, F_DUPFD, 3);	/* Returns lowest possible   */
> 					/* 'dup'ed file descr. >= 3  */

Or dup2(1,3).

---Dan