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From: mellman@ttrdd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: ksh question
Message-ID: <190@ttrdd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 19:26:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttrdd.190
Posted: Thu Jul  9 19:26:08 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 09:48:14 EDT
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Keywords: noclobber

After using the csh for a long time, I have recently been introduced
to the ksh.  And it's great.  I'm a new convert.  I have only one
question.  How do people in the ksh world do without noclobber?  Is
there some trick I don't know about yet, or do other people simply
make fewer mistakes than I do?

Actually, this applies to system V's cp/mv/ln trio, too.  I can't believe
people can so blithely tip-toe through their files without being just
a little nervous about stomping some out.

Don't get me wrong.  I'm not one of those people who are so unsteady
at the keyboard that they NEVER delete their files themselves - who
just move them to some "garbage can", to be delete by a machine.
I've even been known to do an rm -rf on occassion - after 4 or 5
double-checks.

But sometimes I forget to put the second > at the end of my cat > calendar,
and three months of important dates get instantly nipped in the bud.
Isn't there something I can do?

ihnp4!ttrdd!mellman