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Re: bash command incompatibility

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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Wayne Davison <wayned@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: bash command incompatibility
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:10:58 -0500
Cc: Petre Bandac <petre@xxxxxx>, zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20040728110213.GA30625@xxxxxxxxx>
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In the last episode (Jul 28), Wayne Davison said:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:07:34AM +0300, Petre Bandac wrote:
> > [petre@xxl]$ cat /dev/null > fetchmail.log                              
> 
> As an alternative to turning off the no_clobber option (as Peter
> suggested), you can just tell zsh that you know that the file already
> exists by using a '|' after the '>', like this:
> 
>     cat /dev/null >|fetchmail.log

I prefer the ! syntax, since | means "pipe" to me, and vi also uses ! as a
"force" flag.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

References:
- bash command incompatibility
  - From: Petre Bandac
- Re: bash command incompatibility
  - From: Wayne Davison

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