How can I force redirect using > in csh to clobber existing file?-CodePudding

OSTYPE=linux
OS_KERNEL_VERSION=3.10.0
csh

When I try to clobber an existing file using redirect ">" I get an error... "File exists."

% date > the.log
% echo $?
0
% date > the.log
the.log: File exists.
% echo $?
1

How can I simply force the clobber of "the.log" without getting the error ?

Update: This appears to be happening on one server but not others. So it's a server specific thing... some sort of config setting ?

CodePudding user response：

In linux you cannot have two files with same name,once check using ls commadn,if you dont want error give % date > the.log 2>&1 for both error and sucess to fall to log file

CodePudding user response：

Thanks Harish for the reply. But vgersh99 got it right (the 2nd time). For csh, you need the '!'. Something to do with a noclobber setting in the shell.