Re: truncating files

[hilliard@metrolink.net (Robert D. Hilliard)]

     From the bash manpage:

       noclobber
              If set, bash does not overwrite  an  existing  file
              with the >, >&, and <> redirection operators.  This
              variable may be  overridden  when  creating  output
              files  by using the redirection operator >| instead
              of > (see also the -C option  to  the  set  builtin
              command).

Bob

On Sun, 7 Dec 1997,William R Ward <hermit@BayView.COM> wrote:
> >> 1) I use set -C in bash, so I can't say > foo if foo exists wthout
> >> first saying set +C.
> 
> >     ">| foo" overrides the noclobber option
> 
> Don't you mean ">!", not ">|"??


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