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
next prev 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
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