On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 10:07, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > On 12/20 07:37 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > > What's the escaped '!' in there for? > > > > zsh for "overwrite this file even if it exists". I got sick of > > destroying things by accident with ">", so I told zsh to not let me > > do that. > > ah. cool. I've heard that some people really like zsh; but I've not learned > enough about it to see its superiorities.
Bash has the same functionality with slightly different syntax: set -o noclobber override with echo xxx >| file_to_clobber -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
