Definition of "dup" [dup]

• To open (a door, gate etc.) (verb)

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• "Here the exec statement re-opens stdout on the log file and then re-opens stderr on the same thing that stdout is opened on (this is how you duplicate file descriptors, aka dup them)."
• "Face it - You forgot that once he loses the GE, he'll basically have use dup his political capital and won't get a second chance to run his change campaign ... hahahaha."
• "The Daily Record talked to Robert Pattinson, who seems to have picke dup some phobias from Twilight, or at least a sense of his own mortality."