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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2006 22:30:58 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        lopisaur@gmail.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Weird / FS behavior
Message-ID:  <052E7BF5-8139-4E2E-B341-6CE53F7F81F8@ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1146796223.21698.7.camel@hellion.clcw>
References:  <1146796223.21698.7.camel@hellion.clcw>

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On May 4, 2006, at 10:30 , Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote:

> root@hellion# cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs
>
> /: write failed, filesystem is full
> cat: stdout: No space left on device

The shell expands the * after creating the output file for the  
redirection, so one of the files being concatenated into cal.vcs is  
cal.vcs.  (This has always been true for all shells, in my experience.)

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]       
allbery@kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]   
allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university       
KF8NH






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