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(or "In dash, ... is not supported." when using dash)

exec {n}> "$output"
echo "Your fd is $n"

There is no simple, mechanical alternative for POSIX sh, but you can either switch to a shell that does support this (like bash), or hard code (or eval) a specific file descriptor.

The syntax for opening an arbitrary file descriptor and assigning it to a variable for later use is a bash and ksh extension. It does not work on POSIX sh or dash.

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