On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: > Granted, the double greater-than is dangerous because it is easy > to forget to double it, which means you kiss the older stuff > bye-bye, but we already know that Linux assumes you know what you > are doing. For the paranoid, most shells (including Bash,) have a feature to prevent this. In Bash, you can do "set -o noclobber" and it won't let you overwrite files in this fashion.
