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Timeline for cat redirection

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Aug 29, 2016 at 17:42 comment added Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' @TulsiKanodia See unix.stackexchange.com/questions/154903/why-does-cat-x-x-loop
Aug 29, 2016 at 16:52 comment added UTF-8 This is detected and prevented. Instead, the text cat: filename: input file is output file (where filename is the filename you chose) is printed on the old stdout.
Aug 29, 2016 at 16:04 comment added user3490 @TulsiKanodia - that causes an infinite loop. Each time cat reads a line, it appends another before moving to the next.
Aug 29, 2016 at 15:39 comment added Tulsi Kanodia What about cat abc >> abc ? What happens then?
Aug 29, 2016 at 15:28 vote accept Tulsi Kanodia
Aug 29, 2016 at 15:09 history answered heemayl CC BY-SA 3.0