Debian Developers - Bug#275140: Redirections and noclobber

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Bug#275140: Redirections and noclobber

Julian Gilbey

2004-10-10, 5:54 pm

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:33:23PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Nils wrote in his bug report:
>
> ,----
> | The postinst script:
> | /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.postinst
> | fails if you set bash's "noclobber" (say in your .bashrc via set -o noclobber).
> | (yes, I set noclobber in root's .bashrc -- I'm careful)
> `----

You should do this carefully:

if [ -n "$PS1" ]; then
# set whatever interactive things you want
fi

Julian

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