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3.6.10 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 created.