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avar on Feb 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Useful use of cat(1)

What do you mean it doesn't work? ">file" will work on all POSIX shells, it even works on Solaris /bin/sh!

Also ":>" is not an operator, it's ":" (a built-in command that does nothing and returns true) and a redirection.

waitwhat on Feb 26, 2012 | [–]

Like the grand-parent, I have definitely used a Unix variant (CX/SX?) which required a command to do redirection.

koenigdavidmj on Feb 26, 2012 | [–]

It was a joke to call it an operator.

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