Timeline for cat redirection
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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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 |