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On Jul 23 2019, Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> wrote:

> It got closed in the parent. The lsof is running for the parent, the main
> process. /bin/echo has quit before the lsof runs.

When you run an external command the redirection is performed in the
child.

Andreas.

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