Maybe in my quest to be a smartarse, I'm the one missing it... but why can't you just use > in both those cases? EDIT -- after tinkering around with the consol

Maybe in my quest to be a smartarse, I'm the one missing it... but why can't you just use > in both those cases? EDIT -- after tinkering around with the console, I see. I'm wiping the file out by writing to it (>) before it's finished reading (<). Neat, TIL!