execline
Software
skarnet.org

The fdmove program

fdmove moves or copies a given file descriptor, then executes a program.

Interface

     fdmove [ -c ] fdto fdfrom prog...

fdmove moves the file descriptor number fdfrom, to number fdto, then execs into prog with its arguments. If fdto is open, fdmove closes it before moving fdfrom to it.

Options

• -c : duplicate fdfrom to fdto instead of moving it; do not close fdfrom.

Notes

• fdmove -c a b prog... is roughly equivalent to sh -c 'exec prog... a>&b'
• fdmove a b prog... is roughly equivalent to sh -c 'exec prog... a>&b b<&-'