unofficial mirror of help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org>
Subject: Re: modifying movemail
Date: 21 Jun 2004 15:26:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7efz8pm490.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3hdt7gqni.fsf@uboot.com

Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com> writes:

> echo "" > "$1"

this may result in a file of one character, a newline, which
is probably not what you want.  you can try, instead:

  > "$1"

that is, no echo command, only redirection.  if that fails,
you can try:

  cat /dev/null > "$1"

if that fails, it means /dev/null is broken (weird!).

thi

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-06-21 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-19 10:27 modifying movemail Florian von Savigny
2004-06-19 17:39 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-19 21:54   ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-19 22:10     ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-19 22:45       ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20  5:32         ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-19 22:28     ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20  5:42       ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-06-20 10:13         ` Florian von Savigny
2004-06-20 10:46           ` poor man's movemail Florian von Savigny
2004-06-21 13:26     ` Thien-Thi Nguyen [this message]
2004-07-01 10:17     ` modifying movemail Kai Grossjohann

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7efz8pm490.fsf@ada2.unipv.it \
    --to=ttn@glug.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).