On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 09:53:42AM +0200, Erez Doron wrote: > hi > > the sysadmin has messed with the global .cshrc, and now when i do a > redirection, e.g. : > echo hello > log > i get : > log: File exists. > what do i need to unset to solved this ?
You need to unset the 'noclobber' shell variable. Quoting the relevant
bit from 'man csh':
> name
>! name
>& name
>&! name
The file name is used as standard output. If the file does not
exist then it is created; if the file exists, it is truncated,
its previous contents being lost.
If the shell variable noclobber is set, then the file must not
exist or be a character special file (e.g., a terminal or
`/dev/null') or an error results. This helps prevent acciden-
tal destruction of files. In this case the `!' forms can be
used to suppress this check.
The forms involving `&' route the diagnostic output into the
specified file as well as the standard output. name is
expanded in the same way as `<' input filenames are.
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Muli Ben-Yehuda
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