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A more thorough explanation of redirections

Open ELLIOTTCABLE opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

The following is singularly unhelpful to a newbie:

https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=exec+3%3C%260

I'd love to see that broken down into “ is redirected to that, is copied to the other, is the result of these copies for this particular command”, or similar!

ELLIOTTCABLE avatar Oct 20 '17 23:10 ELLIOTTCABLE

Also, standard redirect and error redirect could be improved: https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=ls+%3E+output.log+2%3E+error.log

tdelmas avatar Aug 12 '19 14:08 tdelmas