In the last episode (Dec 24), Uwe Doering said:
> Seamus Abshere wrote:
> >But this happens when I am logged in as sabshere:
> >
> >>$echo "whatev" > index.html
> >>-bash: index.html: cannot overwrite existing file
>
> I think this has nothing to do with file permissions. Instead, the
> 'noclobber' option is probably enabled in your bash settings, so the
> shell refuses to overwrite existing files. Find the directive 'set -o
> noclobber' in your shell's startup files and comment it out, or if this
> behaviour is the default, try to override it with 'set +o noclobber'.
Or use >! , which overrides noclobber for just that one time.
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Dan Nelson
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