Re^6: how to supress stdout

Yes, they are.

As for the assumption in "Assuming 1 is standard output ...", if fd's 1 & 2 have been already closed & opened to some other fd's (before redirection), would fd's 1 & 2 still work for the purpose (of redirection after being redirected)?

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Re^7: how to supress stdout by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 14, 2008 at 16:13 UTC
I don't see why `>` would depend on the previous state of the file descriptors. If the fd is closed, `>` should reopen it. And that's what I see happening: `$ ( echo foo ) 1>&- -bash: echo: write error: Bad file descriptor $ ( echo foo > /dev/tty ) 1>&- foo` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]