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On 09/17/14 05:22, Jouni Kosonen wrote: |
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>Joseph wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to backup crontab from various boxes to files, so I'm using |
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>> (run once a month) 11 01 * * 5 crontab -l > |
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>> /home/joseph/business/backup/crontabs/syscon7_joseph_crontab |
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>> but I can from bash: cannot overwrite existing file |
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>From "man bash": |
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> Redirecting Output |
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>... |
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> If the redirection operator is >, and the noclobber option to the |
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> set builtin has been enabled, the redirection will fail if the file |
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> whose name results from the expansion of word exists and is a regu‐ |
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> lar file. If the redirection operator is >|, or the redirection |
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> operator is > and the noclobber option to the set builtin command |
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> is not enabled, the redirection is attempted even if the file named |
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> by word exists. |
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Yes, that worked. Thanks |
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Joseph |
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