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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
Keywords: perl
Message-ID: <5058@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 6 Jun 89 22:19:13 GMT
References: <123@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <568@megatek.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <568@megatek.UUCP> frankel@corona.UUCP (Allan Frankel) writes:
: To write to ">a" it would presumably be necessary to delete (or truncate)
: it first and then open ">>>a".

Actually, it suffices to put a space after the first >, as in "> >a".
Of course, this means you can't easily create a filename starting with spaces,
but why would you want to do that anyway?

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov