Subj : Re: about to blow a gaske
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Sniper
Date : Sat May 21 2005 01:39 am

-=> Angus Mcleod wrote to Sniper <=-

 AM>   Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
 AM>   By: Sniper to Angus Mcleod on Fri May 20 2005 17:24:00

 >  AM> WTF does 'less > *' do?  I'm afraid to even try it!
 >
 > I was brave...
 >
 > bash: *: ambiguous redirect
 >
 > So, its safe.  :)

 AM> Yea -- I built a machine and tried it.  I got the same result.  The '>
 AM> *' looks like it should truncate all files.  '> filename.ext' truncates
 AM> the named file, due to a quirk of redirection.  I think if '*' were to
 AM> evaluate to a single filename, that would occur.  If you do this:

 	> first.ext second.ext third.ext fourth.ext etcetera.ext

 AM> then the shell should try to truncate 'first.ext', then execute
 AM> 'second.ext' with 'third.ext fourth.ext etcetera.ext' as arguments and
 AM> redirect STDOUT to 'first.ext'.

 AM> I'm not sure why '*' evaluated to a list of files, doesn't bring about
 AM> the same result.

I had totally forgotten what "> filename" would do... :)  Wow!  :)  I'm
getting rusty.  Glad it didn't wipe out my system...  Damn... I just put
up a stupid sign... Ok!  :)



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