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  From: Jake Hawkes <jake@infinitylimited.net>
  To  : Daryl Tester <dt@picknowl.com.au>
  Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:09:08 +0930

Re: Protecting files against power failure

Daryl Tester wrote:
> 
> David Newall wrote:
> > Files can even appear in *no* directory.  (Try this: 
> > bash$ exec 5>foo 6<foo; ls -l / >&5; ls -l foo; rm foo; cat <&6

could someone walk through this one?

exec 5>foo 6<foo
ls -l / >&5
ls -l foo
rm foo
cat <&6

I'm thinking that the first line is setting up IO streams, that the 2nd
and 3rd lines are putting text into those streams, an dthe 5th line is
displaying those streams.

Close?

--
Jake Hawkes, B.Eng (CSE)

"I'm only smart enough to know how stupid I am", Joe Strummer.

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