At 9:29 AM +0100 10/10/06, Dan Track wrote: ... >I'm a little bit confused it seems as though some people are saying that >exec 9<&0 < $filename means that the rest of the script will be >dealing with fd9, but other people are saying that I will be dealing >with fd0 throughout the script. Which ones right? Both. After 9<&0, both fd9 and fd0 are the same thing. You most likely want 9<$filename so that fd9 has the file and fd0 (stdin) is left alone. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
