Re: FAT32 input > output = null?

[chris <chris () defcon org>]

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Nico Golde wrote:

> Hallo chris,
>
> i don't understand your problem.
> i tried:
> [nico@golde:~] $ ls -al test
> -rw-r--r--    1 nico     users           6 2004-04-08 11:46 test
> [nico@golde:~] $ test>test
> [nico@golde:~] $ ls -al test
> -rw-r--r--    1 nico     users           0 2004-04-08 11:47 test
>
> but it is not wondering because you put the output of the first command
> in the file after the >. because you have not a real command and you
> have no real output you overwrite the file with an empty output stream
> and the file is 0 byte after it.
> haven't i understand your problem correctly?
> regards nico



I don't really have a problem.  The original poster tried this on a FAT32
system and asked if it was normal behavior.  Another poster confirmed that
this was the case with NTFS and I was merely doing the same for ext3.

Thanks,

Chris
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