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From: zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: zsh blocks at file truncation
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 08:49:04 +0000 (UTC)
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chandan <chandanrmail@gmail.com> wrote in
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> Hi all,
> 
> Like most others I am trying to move from bash to zsh as my default
> shell. 
> 
> On zsh, Why does the following block indefinitely?
> 
> $ >file.txt

The syntax for truncation I have is

$ :> bigfile.log

zzapper