Re^2: Redirecting STDOUT and standard error to file

[welchavw]

in reply to Re: Redirecting STDOUT and standard error to file
in thread Redirecting STDOUT and standard error to file

Great post. I have one question you may wish to ponder - what the heck is going on with fd 3 in this example? As far as I can see, the manipulations of fd 3 are (as with dd's output in the example) just noise. I know its OT, but I wonder about this.