Subj : Re: about to blow a gaske
To   : Angus Mcleod
From : Deuce
Date : Sat May 21 2005 10:09 am

  Re: Re: about to blow a gaske
  By: Angus Mcleod to Sniper on Fri May 20 2005 19:39:00

 >      > first.ext second.ext third.ext fourth.ext etcetera.ext
 > 
 > then the shell should try to truncate 'first.ext', then execute
 > 'second.ext' with 'third.ext fourth.ext etcetera.ext' as arguments and
 > redirect STDOUT to 'first.ext'.
 > 
 > I'm not sure why '*' evaluated to a list of files, doesn't bring about the
 > same result.

You would need a ; between first.ext and second.ext for the results you
described.  The reason you get an ambiguous redirect is that you're trying to
redirect to multiple files... the shell has no clue what you mean by that.

Now, if you tried it in a directory with only one file...


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