• 4am@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    .“:>>” is “append null” right? Do you get a file with a single ASCII NUL or is it truly empty?

    • Not really. I believe : is the “true” builtin. So it’s like running a program that exits with zero and writes nothing to stdout. The >> streams the empty stdout into the named file.