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Difference between 2>&-, 2>/dev/null, |&, &>/dev/null and >/dev/null 2>&1

Just looking for the difference between 2>&- 2>/dev/null |& &>/dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 and their portability with non-Bourne shells like tcsh, mksh, etc.
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Why is it possible to refer to a closed stderr under bash?

I'd like to know why bash doesn't display an error message when we refer to a closed stderr. When it comes to other file descriptors, they have to be opened if we want to, for example, duplicate them. ...
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Practical use for moving file descriptors

According to the bash man page: The redirection operator [n]<&digit- moves the file descriptor digit to file descriptor n, or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if n is ...
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Significance of arrows symbols in duplicating/closing file descriptors under bash

I'm reading a book about Linux command line where author doesn't seem to follow the conventions in bash manual regarding arrows symbols used in redirection operations. Namely, he always uses left ...
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Why doesn't Bash accept `&>&3`, i.e. redirecting stdout and stderr to file descriptor 3?

Given the preamble, foobar function and invocations of it: exec 3>/dev/null function foobar { echo foo; echo bar >&2; } foobar >/dev/null foobar 2>/dev/null foobar ...
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Where to place a Bash shell redirection for a command? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Order of redirections Apart from the standalone exec >&2 to redirect the current shell's input and output are there any behavioral differences in the following ...
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Parameretrize file descriptor number to open a tcp socket in shell script

I'm tried to parameretrize in a variable the file descriptor number to open a tcp socket using exec command but it failed. Only work correctly when file descriptor number is a constant. In the next ...
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Order of redirections

I don't quite understand how the computer reads this command. cat file1 file2 1> file.txt 2>&1 If I understand, 2>&1 simply redirect Standard Error to Standard Output. By that ...
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File descriptors & shell scripting

I am having a very hard time understanding how does one use file descriptors in shell scripts. I know the basics such as exec 5 > /tmp/foo So fd 5 is attached to foo for writing. exec 6 < ...