FDCLOSE(1)

💖 fdclose(1) — your General Commands Manual bestie is here 💖

✨ NAME ✨

fdclose — close a given file descriptor, then execute a program 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fdclose fd prog...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so picture this: fdclose closes the file descriptor number fd, then it exec(3)s into prog with its arguments. that's the whole plot, no cap ✨

and bestie, fdclose n prog... is roughly equivalent to sh -c 'exec prog... n<&-' — literally same energy 🫶

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

go give these iconique pals a read:

• emptyenv(1)
• envfile(1)
• exec(1)
• execline-cd(1)
• execline-umask(1)
• exit(1)
• export(1)
• fdblock(1)
• fdmove(1)
• fdreserve(1)
• fdswap(1)
• getcwd(1)
• getpid(1)
• heredoc(1)
• piperw(1)
• posix-cd(1)
• posix-umask(1)
• redirfd(1)
• trap(1)
• tryexec(1)
• unexport(1)
• wait(1)
• withstdinas(1)
• exec(3)

This man page is a port of the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/execline/fdclose.html 🦋

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Laurent Bercot 💖
• Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port) 🎀

with love from Debian, dated February 14, 2021, signed FDCLOSE(1) 💅✨