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From: Helmut Karlowski <helmut DOT karlowski AT ish DOT de>
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Subject: Re: /dev/tty does not work from shell
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Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 11:36:20 +0100
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Thomas Wolff <towo AT towo DOT net> wrote:
(09/02/2015 09:47)

> 
> Am 09.02.2015 um 05:23 schrieb Andrey Repin:
> > Greetings, Thomas Wolff!
> >
> >> echo bla > /dev/tty
> >> bash: /dev/tty: cannot overwrite existing file
> > WJFFM
> >
> > Please be more specific.
> > I.e. terminal type and any other relevant information would help resolving
> > your issue.
> >
> > (Though, I fail to replicate it with both mintty and native terminal.)
> Hmm, I've observed this for a while already on all my cygwin
> installations (64bit/32bit on 64/32bit Windows, ...)
> and in different terminals (mintty, console, ...), so I'd thought it
> would be reproducible. Pondering...

bash prints that message when it has the noclobber-option set. Maybe 
you check it?



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