-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:18:55AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've got the following error in a script yesterday on a Debian 8 > machine: > > sh: 1: exec: /home/vlefevre/bin/mymaple: File exists > > where sh is dash. The command that led to this error is equivalent to:
Just a cheap shot (I see you've dug up a couple of things which might make my hunch obsolete). Do you have perhaps the noclobber option set? # -C -- set noclobber tomas@rasputin:~$ dash -C $ touch moo $ echo blah > moo dash: 2: cannot create moo: File exists regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbYDL8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2karkACeOWfg7J9J/qa9JF43EvRcPdeI tnMAni8M2qxoceb2GVeCwnhYrKzqFa7F =GL93 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
