On Jun 18, 16:33, Christoph Badura wrote:
> Subject: Re: Strange cat behavior with directories
>
> Well, "cat *>out" really is equivalent to "cat blah bob out > out" in
> this case.  And it is copying out onto itself.

This is shell-dependent. Bash and ksh first expand the file names,
then create the file to redirect output. In these shells, the
expression "cat *>out" would work as intended. (But I would not
recommend such constructions regardless of actual implementation
in current shell. :-)

cerno

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