why is an existing file not overwritten by output-file?

[David T-G]

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Andreas --

=2E..and then akorthaus@web.de said...
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% Hallo!
% Is there another possibility instead of:
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% rm output.gpg | mysqldump database | gpg -o
% output.gpg -e --default-recipient andreas

This will never work; you're trying to pipe rm through everything else,
and I expect that mysqldump will not like having input sent to it.  You
want a semicolon instead of that first pipe.

As you have seen otherwise, though, you simply need to either tell gpg to
overwrite the file (--yes) or call it as a pipeline and overwrite the
file yourself (>file), assuming you then don't have any special noclobber
options of any sort that make the shell stand up and not step on, or
clobber, existing files.


HAND

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