除了以上所有简化的回答。

如果使用bash脚本处理文件，最好使用文件描述符。

例如: 如果你想读写文件"test.txt"，使用文件描述符如下所示:

FILE=$1 # give the name of file in the command line
exec 5<>$FILE # '5' here act as the file descriptor

# Reading from the file line by line using file descriptor
while read LINE; do
    echo "$LINE"
done <&5

# Writing to the file using descriptor
echo "Adding the date: `date`" >&5 
exec 5<&- # Closing a file descriptor

As an addition to other answers, unix considers everything as a file system. Your keyboard is a file that is read only from the perspective of the kernel. The screen is a write only file. Similarly, folders, input-output devices etc are also considered to be files. Whenever a file is opened, say when the device drivers[for device files] requests an open(), or a process opens an user file the kernel allocates a file descriptor, an integer that specifies the access to that file such it being read only, write only etc. [for reference : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file ]

来自马的嘴:APUE(理查德·史蒂文斯饰)。 对于内核，所有打开的文件都由文件描述符引用。文件描述符是非负数。

当我们打开一个现有文件或创建一个新文件时，内核会向进程返回一个文件描述符。内核维护一个包含所有正在使用的打开的文件描述符的表。文件描述符的分配通常是顺序的，它们从空闲文件描述符池中作为下一个空闲文件描述符分配给文件。关闭文件时，文件描述符将被释放，并可用于进一步分配。 请看这张图片了解更多细节:

When we want to read or write a file, we identify the file with the file descriptor that was returned by open() or create() function call, and use it as an argument to either read() or write(). It is by convention that, UNIX System shells associates the file descriptor 0 with Standard Input of a process, file descriptor 1 with Standard Output, and file descriptor 2 with Standard Error. File descriptor ranges from 0 to OPEN_MAX. File descriptor max value can be obtained with ulimit -n. For more information, go through 3rd chapter of APUE Book.

这里提供的所有答案都很棒，这是我的版本

文件描述符是非负整数，充当“文件”或I/O资源(如管道、套接字或数据流)的抽象句柄。这些描述符帮助我们与这些I/O资源进行交互，并使使用它们变得非常容易。I/O系统对于用户进程来说是一个字节流(I/O流)。Unix进程使用描述符(小的无符号整数)来引用I/O流。与I/O操作相关的系统调用以一个描述符作为参数。

有效的文件描述符范围从0到可配置的最大描述符数(ulimit， /proc/sys/fs/file-max)。内核为FD表的std输入(0)，std输出(1)和std错误(2)分配desc.。如果文件打开失败，fd返回-1。

当进程成功请求打开一个文件时，内核返回一个文件描述符，该描述符指向内核全局文件表中的一个条目。文件表项包含文件的inode、字节偏移量和该数据流的访问限制(只读、只写等)等信息。

关于文件描述符的更多要点:

文件描述符(FD)是非负整数(0,1,2，…)，它们与所打开的文件相关联。 0、1、2是标准FD，对应于程序启动时默认为shell打开的STDIN_FILENO、STDOUT_FILENO和STDERR_FILENO(在unistd.h中定义)。 FD是按顺序分配的，这意味着尽可能低的未分配整数值。 特定进程的FD可以在/proc/$pid/ FD(在基于Unix的系统上)中看到。

文件描述符(FD):

In Linux/Unix, everything is a file. Regular file, Directories, and even Devices are files. Every File has an associated number called File Descriptor (FD). Your screen also has a File Descriptor. When a program is executed the output is sent to File Descriptor of the screen, and you see program output on your monitor. If the output is sent to File Descriptor of the printer, the program output would have been printed. Error Redirection : Whenever you execute a program/command at the terminal, 3 files are always open standard input standard output standard error. These files are always present whenever a program is run. As explained before a file descriptor, is associated with each of these files. File                                        File Descriptor Standard Input STDIN              0 Standard Output STDOUT       1 Standard Error STDERR          2 For instance, while searching for files, one typically gets permission denied errors or some other kind of errors. These errors can be saved to a particular file. Example 1

$ ls mydir 2>错误文件.txt

标准错误的文件描述符是2。 如果没有任何名为mydir的目录，则命令的输出将保存到文件errorfile.txt 使用"2>"将错误输出重定向到名为"errorfile.txt"的文件 因此，程序输出不会充满错误。 我希望你得到了答案。