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Tim Walberg <twalberg@mindspring.com> writes:

|> I think that
|> 
|> find / -name foo 2>&-
|> 
|> should do the trick (under ksh, anyway, and
|> probably zsh or bash as well).

This is different since the process now gets an error when trying to write
to fd 2, and a good implementation with check for errors.

Andreas.

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