Tag: noclobber

• Basic tinkering with “set” command and “noclobber” related

  commandline session [bash light=”true”] $echo improve > clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve $set -o noclobber $echo new > clean.txt bash: clean.txt: cannot overwrite existing file $echo new >> clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve new $echo again >| clean.txt $cat clean.txt again $set +o noclobber $echo improve > clean.txt $cat clean.txt improve $ [/bash]

  Jeffrin Jose T

  29 Apr 2013

  Bash

  improved, noclobber