4 Jan
2020
4 Jan
'20
5:32 a.m.
On Fri, 3 Jan 2020, markus schnalke wrote:
Especially I'd like to know since when and why
``>file'' is a full
command? Was it clever design or by accident?
I/O redirection occurs before command execution (in this case, the null
command).
First, it creates (or truncates) the file, then runs the command; oh, it's
the null command...
-- Dave