On 2016-03-03 11:06:55 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 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?
It is in my zsh shell, but here zsh is not involved at all. For dash, it is not set by default: francine:~> sh -c 'touch moo; echo blah > moo' francine:~> Anyway, I don't see why the noclobber option would have any effect on the exec command, even when there is a redirection to a file: francine:~> sh -c 'set -C; touch moo; exec true > moo' sh: 1: cannot create moo: File exists As you can see the error message is different. It is at the shell level (before the "exec" command gets executed). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
