Weird / FS behavior

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 4, 2006, at 10:30 , Christian Lopez de Castilla Wagner wrote:

> root at hellion# cat S56/vcs/20060504/*.vcs >> S56/vcs/20060504/cal.vcs
>
> /: write failed, filesystem is full
> cat: stdout: No space left on device

The shell expands the * after creating the output file for the  
redirection, so one of the files being concatenated into cal.vcs is  
cal.vcs.  (This has always been true for all shells, in my experience.)

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]       
allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]   
allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university       
KF8NH