From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Petre Bandac <petre@kgb.ro>, zsh-users@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: bash command incompatibility
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 12:10:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728171057.GF9972@dan.emsphone.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040728110213.GA30625@blorf.net>
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@allantgroup.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-28 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 8:07 Petre Bandac
2004-07-28 9:26 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-07-28 11:02 ` Wayne Davison
2004-07-28 17:10 ` Dan Nelson [this message]
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