Bourne Shell FOR loop confusion

[Maarten Litmaath]

jdpeek at RODAN.ACS.SYR.EDU (Jerry Peek) writes:
\...	while read user passwd uid junk
\	do
\	   line=`expr $line + 1`
\	   echo "user${line}='$user' uid${line}='$uid'" 1>&4
\	done </etc/passwd 4>$defs

Why use fd 4, Jerry?  Stdout will do.
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