Re: How can redirection operator aka ">" open output in append instead of ordinary write mode?

[Chet Ramey]

On 5/16/19 4:25 PM, howaboutsynergy@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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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

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