Re: using exec to close a fd in a var crashes bash

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/22/23 2:59 PM, Dale R. Worley wrote:
> Is there any way to write a redirection "Redirect the fd whose number is
> in $FOO to file /foo/bar?"  OK, you can write 'bash -c "..."' and
> assemble a command string however you want.  But is there a direct way
> to write it?  The "{var}>..." mechanism *assigns* to $var, rather than
> taking its existing value.

If you want an extra round of word expansion, use eval.

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