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Output Redirection With Bash

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Looking at your submissions, the most recent 30 (I didn't check further) are all from the same web site, a web site whose name bears a remarkable similarity to your username.

Also, most of them appear to be really, really trivial. Maybe that's just my viewpoint, but really, redirection in Bash? Have you tested these in other shells? Are they specific to Bash? Do they work in other operating systems?

Have you done anything other than write down something off the top of your head?

Maybe I'm being unfair, but I expect things lunk to from HN to contain some evidence of work being done. This, and all your other submissions, just look like blog spam.

I write about new things I learn, old things I've forgotten more than once before, opinions on trends I see as well as my ideas about improving the software craft in some way. I submit the stuff I write to 2-3 places to spread it around, I figure that if I found it useful or interesting, other people might find it useful or interesting also.

I don't hide the fact that I submit the things I write, I also don't spend hours trawling the web for random things to submit. Instead I spend my time learning new things, coming up with ideas and opinions, reading and writing stuff in a format that others might find interesting.

I don't ask for votes or anything else from people, if they find what I write interesting they will read it, if not - they won't. By submitting something I give people a chance to read it and trust them to make up their own mind.

You find what I write trivial - don't read it. That's right, redirection in bash, i can't tell you how many times I've forgotten how to do it, and how many other people have as well. It is specific to bash, it doesn't work in other shells, it doesn't work in other OS's, if it did I would have said so in the article.

In this case, I've written something down off the top of my head; no offense but what have you written down lately? I hope that before you go ahead and label other people's work as spam, you will have produced a lot of high quality content of your own that can put all this 'trivial' stuff to shame. That's only fair right?

I am going to assume that your last 30 submissions were of the highest caliber and were all both educational and insightful. I could check of course, but instead I am going to go and learn something new and then write about it.

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