Resolved: How does this redirection after a here-document work?

Question:

I inderstand that <<! is a “here-document” and is passing the commands to ftp until it reaches the delimiter “!” but I can’t seem to wrap my head around this redirection:
Could someone please explain what is happening here?

Answer:

First, the heredoc could be listed last without affecting what happens. Heredocs are traditionally written last but the <<NAME but can actually be written anywhere within the command. The order of << relative to the two > redirections doesn’t matter since the former changes stdin and the latter change stdout and stderr.
It’d be clearer if it were written:

ftp -v -n > /tmp/ftp$$ 2>&1 < Second, to explain the output redirections:

• > /tmp/ftp$$ redirects stdout to a file named /tmp/ftp1234, where 1234 is the PID of the current shell process. It’s an ad hoc way of making a temporary file with a relatively unique name. If the shell script were run several times in parallel each copy would write to a different temp file.

• 2>&1 redirects stderr (fd 2) to stdout (fd 1). In other words, it sends error messages to the same file /tmp/ftp$$.

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