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Article #5079Re: perl question about > in file name
From: Larry Wall
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 22:19
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 1989 22:19
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In article <568@megatek.UUCP> frankel@corona.UUCP (Allan Frankel) writes: : To write to ">a" it would presumably be necessary to delete (or truncate) : it first and then open ">>>a". Actually, it suffices to put a space after the first >, as in "> >a". Of course, this means you can't easily create a filename starting with spaces, but why would you want to do that anyway? Larry Wall lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!elroy!jpl-devvax!lwall From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name Keywords: perl Message-ID: <5058@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 6 Jun 89 22:19:13 GMT References: <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <568@megatek.UUCP> Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 10