31 May
2016
31 May
'16
4:35 p.m.
Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
What's the mnmonic significance, if any, of the u
in
the bash builtin read -u for reading from a specified
file descriptor? Evidently both f and d had already been
taken in analogy to usage in some other commands.
It seems to be a copy from ksh.
Ksh implements a private "print" builtin that also uses -u fd.
Jörg
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