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Re: NOCLOBBER option: ">" to ">!" in history?

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: NOCLOBBER option: ">" to ">!" in history?
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:27:26 +0000
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holger.dinkel@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> If you really do want to clobber a file, you can use the >! operator.
> To make things easier in this case, the > is stored in the history
> list as a >!:
>
> % cat /dev/null >! ~/.zshrc
> % cat /etc/motd > ~/.zshrc
> zsh: file exists: /u/pfalstad/.zshrc
> % !!
> cat /etc/motd >! ~/.zshrc
> % ...

You actually need to have the HIST_ALLOW_CLOBBER option set for that.
The introduction needs updating.

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