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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.)

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