close(3Tcl)

close - Close an open file

As shipped in IRIX 6.5.7. Unchanged since IRIX 6.5.

NAME
     close - Close an open file

SYNOPSIS
     close fileId


DESCRIPTION
     Closes the file given by fileId.  FileId must be the return value from a
     previous invocation of the open command; after this command, it should
     not be used anymore.  If fileId refers to a command pipeline instead of a
     file, then close waits for the children to complete.  The normal result
     of this command is an empty string, but errors are returned if there are
     problems in closing the file or waiting for children to complete.


KEYWORDS
     close, file