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From: "Moore, Brandon A." <moore.3071@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
To: "Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX)" <kp-pav@yandex.ru>,
	"zsh-workers@zsh.org" <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Bug report: `> filename` doesn't exit
Thread-Topic: Bug report: `> filename` doesn't exit
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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 20:54:39 +0000
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my apologies, I'm used to prepending $ to indicate the user as I usually ru=
n bash. The command is simply `> file`

Brandon Moore

President
OpenSource Club
2016-2017

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From: Nikolay Aleksandrovich Pavlov (ZyX) <kp-pav@yandex.ru>
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 4:53:09 PM
To: Moore, Brandon A.; zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: Bug report: `> filename` doesn't exit

30.04.2016, 23:50, "Moore, Brandon A." <moore.3071@buckeyemail.osu.edu>:
> I am uncertain if the mailling list is the correct spot for a bug report.=
 Feel free to notify me if it is not, but note that I am not on the mailing=
 list.
>
> Bug description:
>
> A user noted on 'oh-my-zsh's Github that the shorthand `> filename` will =
create a file by the given filename (or empty said file if it already exist=
s) as it does in most shells, but it does not exit. This leads to the user =
needing to terminate said command with c-C or c-D. This is atypical compare=
d to other shells that will execute this command and go to the next line.
>
> Reproducing the bug:
>
> run `$ > file`
>
> p.s. please note that I personally do not use or suggest using this as a =
shortcut for the touch command, and am simply passing on this bug on behalf=
 of the user who reported it.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Brandon Moore
>
> President
>
> OpenSource Club
>
> 2016-2017

Unable to reproduce. Running `$ > file` creates `file` and fails with =93zs=
h: command not found: $=94. Zsh version 5.2.