All of you explained it perfectly:!)

On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:31 pm, Francois, Jean (J.L.) wrote:
> Due to order of operation in the shell the ">" is
> interpreted first and deletes the contents of the file mypasswd
> before you get to the cat operation.
>
> This tries to explain it:
> http://infocom.cqu.edu.au/Units/aut99/85321/Resources/Print_Resources/T=
extb
>ook/chap6/
>
> I am sure Google would have something that explains it better.
>
> JLF Sends...

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