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Re: Compiling 6.0_RC1 fails



On Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:36:41 -0400
"Thomas Mueller" <mueller23%insightbb.com@localhost> wrote:

> Pardon my ignorance of shell features, but what does the second line
> of your suggestion do?
> 
> > CVS/Entries
> 
> on a line by itself?

Did you try it?  :-)

        $ ls > t
        $ file t
        t: ASCII text

        $ > t
        $ file t
        t: empty

Not the most common way to truncate a file, but hard to argue with.
I'd imagine it works in any Bourne shell.  

--jkl


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