On May 4, 2006, at 10:30 , Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs
/: write failed, filesystem is full
cat: stdout: No space left on device
The shell expands the * after creating the output file for the
redirection, so one of the files being concatenated into cal.vcs is
cal.vcs. (This has always been true for all shells, in my experience.)
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brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]
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system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]
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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university
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