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		there on Feb 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My 10 UNIX Command Line Mistakes I wanted to append a new zone to /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf file., but end up running: ./mkzone example.com > /var/named/chroot/etc/named.conf in at least tcsh, "set noclobber" will help with this. when you try to overwrite a file that exists (usually from doing > instead of >>) you will get an error that the file exists instead. if you really want to overwrite the file, you have to use ">!".

gnosis on Feb 27, 2011 [–]

It's similar in zsh. Unless CLOBBER is set, you need to use ">!" or ">|" to overwrite a file when redirecting output.

A nice safety feature that's already saved my bacon.

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