Re: Fwd: Clearing RAM Caches

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 07:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> The following two commands are equivalent:
> 
> echo 1 > sudo /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
> 
> echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > sudo
> 
> The file "sudo" will have "1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" in it, because
> echo received two arguments.  Redirections may appear anywhere in a
> "simple" command.  It's conventional to write them at the end of the
> command, but the shell permits them to be anywhere.
> 
> This is a standard feature of all POSIX shells, by the way.  Not a
> bash extension.

I should have remembered this as I learnt it a couple of years ago when
implementing a POSIX shell (subset thereof).

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Tixy