Re: [Full-Disclosure] FAT32 input > output = null?

[chris <chris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Nico Golde wrote:

>Hallo chris,
>
>i don't understand your problem.
>i tried:
>[nico@golde:~] $ ls -al test
>-rw-r--r--    1 nico     users           6 2004-04-08 11:46 test
>[nico@golde:~] $ test>test
>[nico@golde:~] $ ls -al test
>-rw-r--r--    1 nico     users           0 2004-04-08 11:47 test
>
>but it is not wondering because you put the output of the first command
>in the file after the >. because you have not a real command and you
>have no real output you overwrite the file with an empty output stream
>and the file is 0 byte after it.
>haven't i understand your problem correctly?
>regards nico



I don't really have a problem.  The original poster tried this on a FAT32
system and asked if it was normal behavior.  Another poster confirmed that
this was the case with NTFS and I was merely doing the same for ext3.

Thanks,

Chris
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