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From: "Gentoo User" <usr.gentoo@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Simplistic bash-script to manage package.use
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:19:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fbdd0e50807131719x3a4a8b5nde26f07e80bc8f1a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080713170724.1a3b7e35@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

>  > (I'm always fearing the day when I'm writing echo "stuff" >
>  > /etc/portage/package.use").
>
>
> Put "set -o noclobber" in your profile.
Cool, thanks :-)
But is there a way to overwrite an existing file when this option is enabled?




Geralt
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-14  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-12 21:19 [gentoo-user] Simplistic bash-script to manage package.use Mikko Husari
2008-07-12 21:42 ` Gentoo User
2008-07-12 22:01   ` Mikko Husari
2008-07-13 10:38     ` Gentoo User
2008-07-13 10:48       ` Mikko Husari
2008-07-13 15:19         ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-13 16:07       ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-14  0:19         ` Gentoo User [this message]
2008-07-14  0:21           ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-13 11:29 ` Arttu V.
2008-07-13 12:51   ` Mikko Husari
2008-07-13 11:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-13 12:50   ` Mikko Husari
2008-07-13 13:07     ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-13 13:42       ` Mikko Husari

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