On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:36:03 +0100 Svante Signell <svante.sign...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 13:22 +0100, Florian Zieboll wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016 08:48:45 -0300 > > Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > > > Yes – if there's no "exit" command contained in the > > existing .xinitrc. > > What about: (saves a copy of the old file): > > if [ -f test ]; then > mv test test.old > echo "new_entry" > test > else > echo "new_entry" > test > fi > > or: > > if [ -f test ]; then > mv test test.old > fi > echo "new_entry" > test For not having to mention the trigger words "text editor", I think the easiest way to avoid frustrated beginners would be to add a warning like the following to the guide: "This command contains a redirection which will create the named file. If that file already exists, its content will be overwritten and thus should be edited manually instead!" Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
