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Does >; have an ascii name? Symbol Hound isn't bringing up any useful results.
by Sean1708 9y ago
Does >; have an ascii name? Symbol Hound isn't bringing up any useful results.
- kps 9y agoI don't know what you mean by ASCII name. It's two characters, ‘>’ (ASCII 03/14) followed by ‘;’ (03/11). I guess the ‘;’ is mnemonic for the sequential nature of the operation, i.e. renaming the temporary file after the command completes, as well as forming a combination that is a syntax error in sh.
- Sean1708 9y agoWhen I said ASCII I actually meant alphanumerical, sorry. Basically I couldn't find any information about it on search engines so I was wandering if a had a name that I could use to google it.
- kps 9y agoI think the man page¹ is the only readily available documentation. >;word Write output to a temporary file. If the command completes successfully rename it to word, otherwise, delete the temporary file. >;word cannot be used with the exec(2) built-in. ¹ e.g. https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ksh93&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&arch=default&format=html https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ksh93&apropos=0&se...