Re: > Redirection

[Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@ Rocteur CC <jerry@xxxxxxx>:
> 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 like  
> that when I type

(k)sh-like behaviour...

> > filename that it behaves as if I had done : > filename!
>
> I'm looking for a setopt that will fix this non standard behaviour.

man zshparam | less -p NULLCMD

Regards, Frank

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