Am 09.02.2015, 20:38 Uhr, schrieb Thomas Wolff:
bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe
you check it?
Yes, indeed, the effect shows up after set -o noclobber;
however, this shouldn’t apply to device files (and doesn’t on other
systems) -
man bash: “redirection will fail if the file ... is a regular file.”
Right. Looks like a bug (in cygwin).
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