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0 pointstraviscj8y ago0 comments

I prefer cat because > vs < is an easy typo to make but one clobbers the file. Happy to pay the performance penalty as insurance against that.

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You can use the bash setting called noclobber to prevent such accidental deletion.

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0 pointstraviscj8y ago0 comments

I prefer cat because > vs < is an easy typo to make but one clobbers the file. Happy to pay the performance penalty as insurance against that.

You can use the bash setting called noclobber to prevent such accidental deletion.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse