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From: "@ Rocteur CC" <jerry@xxxxxxx>
To: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: > Redirection
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:01:19 +0100
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On 24 Dec 2008, at 16:20, Chris Johnson wrote:

Jerry Rocteur sent me the following 0.3K:

Sorry for this but it is bugging me an I can't find an answer.

When I type > filename

I want it to do the same as cp /dev/null filename


If I read you right, I think you want to precede that command with a
colon:

  : > filename


Hi Chris,

That does work indeed but I want the default behaviour, I would likethat when I type


> filename that it behaves as if I had done : > filename!

I'm looking for a setopt that will fix this non standard behaviour.

Thanks for any help anybody,

Jerry

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