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The >> symbol is used to overwrite the existing file if it exists.(a) True(b) FalseThe question was asked during an interview for a job.Question is taken from Redirection and Pipes topic in chapter The Shell of Unix |
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Answer» CORRECT choice is (b) False Easy explanation: The SHELL provides the >> symbol (right chevron used twice) to append to an EXISTING file. For example, //Do a word count PROGRAM on sample.txt and append the output to NEWFILE as shown below. $ wcsample.txt >> newfile |
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