> One final note. redirects without command words are a very rare beast. > They do nothing normally useful,
As admin I quite often use a simple
> foo.log
to truncate a file back down to zero bytes after some incident causing
the log to be insanely large. The redirect doesn't meddle with ownerships
and permissions, and a running daemon can continue to write to the very
same file descriptor.
Martin Neitzel
