As far as redirection goes, this skipped the least known bit (IMHO), closing descriptors. jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist cat: file-that-do

As far as redirection goes, this skipped the least known bit (IMHO), closing descriptors. jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist cat: file-that-doesnt-exist: No such file or directory jmhobbs@katya:~$ cat file-that-doesnt-exist 2>&- jmhobbs@katya:~$