shell file descriptor programming (was: Unlinked temp files)

Lawrence V. Cipriani lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM
Wed May 10 23:53:22 AEST 1989


In article <1015 at philmds.UUCP> leo at philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>The shell has no means to rewind that I know of;

For tapes the following works:

	$ < tape_device_pathname

Just type it and and watch the tape rewind!  It might even work for files,
but I never used it that way.
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