4 ms·
This has bitten me occasionally, even though I know the workarounds (tempfiles or pipe-consumers like sponge(1)). I'm wondering if there's any practical use fo
by shabble 10y ago
This has bitten me occasionally, even though I know the workarounds (tempfiles or pipe-consumers like sponge(1)).
I'm wondering if there's any practical use for the behaviour, or if it's worth hacking a shell such that it produces a warning/interactive confirm prompt for it (or transparently buffers to DWIM maybe?)
- eichin 10y agoIt's pretty common to `set -o noclobber` in beginner dotfiles; doing deferred-open-if-exists is an interesting idea that would probably get a lot of resistance :-)