On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Devin Teske wrote:
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> On Sep 23, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
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>> On 09/22/2012 15:16, Devin Teske wrote:
>>> -if : 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
>>> +if true 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
>>> cat <<-EOF
On Sep 23, 2012, at 8:13 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 09/22/2012 15:16, Devin Teske wrote:
>> -if : 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
>> +if true 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
>> cat <<-EOF > "$_PATH_DB"
>> $zoneinfo
>>
On 09/22/2012 15:16, Devin Teske wrote:
> - if : 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
> + if true 2> /dev/null > "$_PATH_DB"; then
> cat <<-EOF > "$_PATH_DB"
> $zoneinfo
> EOF
Is there a reason you're not using m
Author: dteske
Date: Sat Sep 22 22:16:07 2012
New Revision: 240843
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240843
Log:
jilles accurately advises that, in the context of shell redirection, the `:'
builtin is processed specially and thus the `: > file' syntax for example
will cause prematur
