Bash Reference Manual for version 2.05.
3.6.7 Opening File Descriptors for Reading and Writing
The redirection operator
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 created.
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