[ < ] [ > ]   [ << ] [ Up ] [ >> ]         [Top] [Contents] [Index] [ ? ]

3.6.7 Opening File Descriptors for Reading and Writing

The redirection operator
 
[n]<>word
causes the file whose name is the expansion of word to be opened for both reading and writing on file descriptor n, or on file descriptor 0 if n is not specified. If the file does not exist, it is created.



This document was generated on May 3, 2002 using texi2html