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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:07:34 +0300
From: Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro>
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Subject: bash command incompatibility
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[petre@xxl]$ cat /dev/null > fetchmail.log                              
     ~
zsh: file exists: fetchmail.log
[petre@xxl]$                                                            


when using bash, this was the command to empty the log files. why
doesn't it work in zsh ?

thanks,

petre

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