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From: batie@agora.UUCP (Alan Batie)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: perl question about > in file name
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Date: 9 Jun 89 14:54:59 GMT
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From article <5058@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, by lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall):
> 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?

Although I agree with Larry in this case, the question "Why would you want to
do that anyway?" is usually followed by someone finding a good reason to do
so, and I consider it a very dangerous question.
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