On 5/16/19 4:25 PM, howaboutsyne...@protonmail.com wrote: > Hi. Would bash devs even consider replacing the current behaviour of ">" > (redirection) to do the equivalent of the following(under the hood) ?
I doubt it. That's not how it's defined to behave, and there's no good
reason to do it.
>
> When:
> `command > $somewhere`
>
> then actually do(under the hood):
> : > $somewhere
> command >> $somewhere
>
>
> ie. create&truncate file, then open it in append mode and redirect to it,
> instead of what it currently does(aka not append).
Why not just use the version you supply above in the cases where it
matters?
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