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| author | Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr> | 2014-12-11 10:03:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2014-12-26 09:50:58 +1100 |
| commit | 6adc14a0d4e4a25eb2df8110672c84f393b45acb (patch) | |
| tree | 7f1143e529f89138f0c502b7f6b6fd2281a36305 /src/dash.1 | |
| parent | [BUILTIN] Fix "test -x" as root on FreeBSD 8 (diff) | |
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man: Clarify two redirection mechanisms
Close Debian Bug #501566 Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dash.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/dash.1 | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/dash.1 b/src/dash.1 index d782882..693c970 100644 --- a/src/dash.1 +++ b/src/dash.1 @@ -402,11 +402,13 @@ Append standard output (or n) to file. .It [n] Ns \*[Lt] file Redirect standard input (or n) from file. .It [n1] Ns \*[Lt]& Ns n2 -Duplicate standard input (or n1) from file descriptor n2. +Copy file descriptor n2 as stdout (or fd n1). +fd n2. .It [n] Ns \*[Lt]&- Close standard input (or n). .It [n1] Ns \*[Gt]& Ns n2 -Duplicate standard output (or n1) to n2. +Copy file descriptor n2 as stdin (or fd n1). +fd n2. .It [n] Ns \*[Gt]&- Close standard output (or n). .It [n] Ns \*[Lt]\*[Gt] file |