On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Yves Dorfsman <[email protected]> wrote:
> to empty a file. Somebody just showed me: > > >/path/to/filename > > > Is this "new"? I've never seen it before (and I've worked with quite a few > sysadmins and devs)... Is this bash vs other shells? I feel weird not > knowing > this. > Not new at all. Note that it can fail with zsh if MULTIOS enabled, though (in that case, zsh assumes you want to run "cat" and it will read from the terminal). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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