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I almost never use < It's too easy to make a mistake and type > ..and that can ruin your whole day.
by gnosis 17y ago
I almost never use <
It's too easy to make a mistake and type >
..and that can ruin your whole day.
- blasdel 17y agoI have fucked myself more than once by typing > instead of >> I find that to be a far more pernicious design error -- they should have made the longer token the destructive one, or used another character in it.
- thornist 17y agozsh with 'setopt noclobber' won't overwrite an existing file with '>', instead requiring '>|'. The history recall conveniently fills in the '|' for you if you up-arrow after a failed call. It works pretty nicely - I imagine other shells have similar.