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Bug#288616: use of ">" in tetex postinst errors for sites using bash noclobber



On 04.01.05 George Georgalis (george@galis.org) wrote:

Hi,

> The use of the noclobber bash option is akin to aliasing "-i" with
> the rm, cp and mv commands. It will stop a redirect to a file if
> that file already exists. I don't see anything in the debian policy
> that says root should not use this option in ~/.bashrc.
> 
This is #275140, which was closed by the submitter. Please have a
look at that one and tell us, if that suffice you.

Regards,
  Hilmar 
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sigmentation fault



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