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From: Sebastian Gniazdowski <sgniazdowski@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:40:45 +0200
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Subject: Re: echo "true" > ~/.zshrc from ~/.zshrc
To: "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" <kp-pav@yandex.ru>
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On 11 June 2016 at 18:34, Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)
<kp-pav@yandex.ru> wrote:
> What do you mean by =E2=80=9Clegal=E2=80=9D?

This seems like absurd thing to do, I was searching for some
reasonable constraints in this, thus the word "legal".

> If you do something like this you need to understand what is going on: se=
e `man zshmisc`, section =E2=80=9CREDIRECTION=E2=80=9D. Specifically `>>` a=
ppends to zshrc, `>` *empties* zshrc and then appends: nearly equivalent is=
 `rm ~/.zshrc; echo true > ~/.zshrc`.

Thanks

> I personally would not suggest to *ever* edit zshrc using `echo =E2=80=A6=
 >[>] ~/.zshrc`: this is a script and using `echo >>` to edit it will over =
time turn zshrc into an unorganized junkyard. If you need to do some edits,=
 take text editor and edit ~/.zshrc, keeping it organized. This is especial=
ly needed if you have many aliases which may alter the subsequent code.

Thanks for the point about aliases

--=20
Best regards,
Sebastian Gniazdowski