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Re:Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code by robertlagrant on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:10AM (#38260853)
I'm surprised that file> command isn't the preferred idiom. Does that mean something else?
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Re:Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code by hnlmorg on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:13AM (#38260877)
Yes, that would write to a file called "command". So the correct way to write that would be:

    command > file
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Redirecti...
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Re:Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code by smrq on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:16AM (#38260909)
That would execute the command `file` and put the output into the file `command`.
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Re:Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code by robertlagrant on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @04:23AM (#38260960)
Oh, now I re-read it - of course! Hah.
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