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Hi!

I'm new in these forums and more or less new with Unix. So... here is the question:

does anyone know where is redirected the output of a command when you put >&- after it?

Does it means any standard file descriptor?

Thanks!

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It means close stdout.

From ksh93 man page

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So... by closing stdout you are sending the output to nowhere. Is like that?

Thank you!