Shell Redirection
ITWeb/개발일반 2009. 10. 20. 14:20Handle | Name | Description |
0 | stdin | Standard input |
1 | stdout | Standard output |
2 | stderr | Standard error |
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REDIRECTION
Before a command is executed, its input and output may be redirected using a special notation inter-
preted by the shell. Redirection may also be used to open and close files for the current shell exe-
cution environment. The following redirection operators may precede or appear anywhere within a sim-
ple command or may follow a command. Redirections are processed in the order they appear, from left
to right.
In the following descriptions, if the file descriptor number is omitted, and the first character of
the redirection operator is <, the redirection refers to the standard input (file descriptor 0). If
the first character of the redirection operator is >, the redirection refers to the standard output
(file descriptor 1).
The word following the redirection operator in the following descriptions, unless otherwise noted, is
subjected to brace expansion, tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic
expansion, quote removal, pathname expansion, and word splitting. If it expands to more than one
word, bash reports an error.
Note that the order of redirections is significant. For example, the command
ls > dirlist 2>&1
directs both standard output and standard error to the file dirlist, while the command
ls 2>&1 > dirlist
directs only the standard output to file dirlist, because the standard error was duplicated as stan-
dard output before the standard output was redirected to dirlist.
Bash handles several filenames specially when they are used in redirections, as described in the fol-
lowing table:
/dev/fd/fd
If fd is a valid integer, file descriptor fd is duplicated.
/dev/stdin
File descriptor 0 is duplicated.
/dev/stdout
File descriptor 1 is duplicated.
/dev/stderr
File descriptor 2 is duplicated.
/dev/tcp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or
service name, bash attempts to open a TCP connection to the corresponding socket.
/dev/udp/host/port
If host is a valid hostname or Internet address, and port is an integer port number or
service name, bash attempts to open a UDP connection to the corresponding socket.
A failure to open or create a file causes the redirection to fail.
Redirections using file descriptors greater than 9 should be used with care, as they may conflict
with file descriptors the shell uses internally.
Redirecting Input
Redirection of input causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word to be opened for
reading on file descriptor n, or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if n is not specified.
The general format for redirecting input is:
[n]<word
Redirecting Output
Redirection of output causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word to be opened for
writing on file descriptor n, or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is not specified. If
the file does not exist it is created; if it does exist it is truncated to zero size.
The general format for redirecting output is:
[n]>word
If the redirection operator is >, and the noclobber option to the set builtin has been enabled, the
redirection will fail if the file whose name results from the expansion of word exists and is a regu-
lar file. If the redirection operator is >|, or the redirection operator is > and the noclobber
option to the set builtin command is not enabled, the redirection is attempted even if the file named
by word exists.
Appending Redirected Output
Redirection of output in this fashion causes the file whose name results from the expansion of word
to be opened for appending on file descriptor n, or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n is
not specified. If the file does not exist it is created.
The general format for appending output is:
[n]>>word
Redirecting Standard Output and Standard Error
Bash allows both the standard output (file descriptor 1) and the standard error output (file descrip-
tor 2) to be redirected to the file whose name is the expansion of word with this construct.
There are two formats for redirecting standard output and standard error:
&>word
and
>&word
Of the two forms, the first is preferred. This is semantically equivalent to
>word 2>&1
Here Documents
This type of redirection instructs the shell to read input from the current source until a line con-
taining only word (with no trailing blanks) is seen. All of the lines read up to that point are then
used as the standard input for a command.
The format of here-documents is:
<<[-]word
here-document
delimiter
No parameter expansion, command substitution, arithmetic expansion, or pathname expansion is per-
formed on word. If any characters in word are quoted, the delimiter is the result of quote removal
on word, and the lines in the here-document are not expanded. If word is unquoted, all lines of the
here-document are subjected to parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion.
In the latter case, the character sequence \<newline> is ignored, and \ must be used to quote the
characters \, $, and ?
If the redirection operator is <<-, then all leading tab characters are stripped from input lines and
the line containing delimiter. This allows here-documents within shell scripts to be indented in a
natural fashion.
Here Strings
A variant of here documents, the format is:
<<<word
The word is expanded and supplied to the command on its standard input.
Duplicating File Descriptors
The redirection operator
[n]<&word
is used to duplicate input file descriptors. If word expands to one or more digits, the file
descriptor denoted by n is made to be a copy of that file descriptor. If the digits in word do not
specify a file descriptor open for input, a redirection error occurs. If word evaluates to -, file
descriptor n is closed. If n is not specified, the standard input (file descriptor 0) is used.
The operator
[n]>&word
is used similarly to duplicate output file descriptors. If n is not specified, the standard output
(file descriptor 1) is used. If the digits in word do not specify a file descriptor open for output,
a redirection error occurs. As a special case, if n is omitted, and word does not expand to one or
more digits, the standard output and standard error are redirected as described previously.
Moving File Descriptors
The redirection operator
[n]<&digit-
moves the file descriptor digit to file descriptor n, or the standard input (file descriptor 0) if n
is not specified. digit is closed after being duplicated to n.
Similarly, the redirection operator
[n]>&digit-
moves the file descriptor digit to file descriptor n, or the standard output (file descriptor 1) if n
is not specified.
Opening File Descriptors for Reading and Writing
The redirection operator
[n]<>word
causes the file whose name is the expansion of word to be opened for both reading and writing on file
descriptor n, or on file descriptor 0 if n is not specified. If the file does not exist, it is cre-
ated.