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how is this a bash-ism? you mean it's related to linux /dev tree?

No, it's not related to the actual /dev tree. Bash handles redirects to /dev/tcp/* and /dev/udp/* specially if there are no files at those locations.

I didn't know this. This is related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7765004/tcp-connection-b...

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