Re: /bin/sh redirect without command failure mode

[neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost (Martin Neitzel)]

> One final note. redirects without command words are a very rare beast.
> They do nothing normally useful,

As admin I quite often use a simple

	> foo.log

to truncate a file back down to zero bytes after some incident causing
the log to be insanely large.  The redirect doesn't meddle with ownerships
and permissions, and a running daemon can continue to write to the very
same file descriptor.

						Martin Neitzel