Dnia czwartek, 19 sierpnia 2021 23:32:44 CEST Paul Eggert pisze: > On 8/19/21 1:43 PM, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote: > > The command { gzip b; } fails because it would compress [a] without > > renaming it. > > The command { gzip -k b; } would not compress [a], so there is no reason > > to > > fail. > Of course one can use -f to go ahead and compress anyway.
That would silently replace an existing target, which is bad.