Unix deficiencies/problems

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <2656 at mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, mjs at mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Spitzer) writes:
> 	application <input >logfile 2>errs 3<db1 4<db2 5>rep1 6>rep2
> [...]
>
> There is a limitation, though.  In this case you might want to have
> db1 and db2 open for both reading and writing, but there is no way to
> make the shell do that do you.

The Bourne shell (but not ksh) allows

	application <> dbfile

where "dbfile" is open for read and write.  One probably shouldn't
rely on this, but it's fun to think about...

     Steve

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