On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:46:32 Jon LaBadie wrote:
> In the old days you could do a silly command like taking some existing
> file and cat'ting it on to the end of itself.
>
>    cat foobar >> foobar

These days (GNU coreutils 5.97) you can still do

$ cat < foobar >> foobar

Though, of course, there are a thousand ways for a user to fill a disk. The 
only real solution to this problem is the use of quotas.

--Ian
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