joining multiple PDFs into one

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Tue, 15 Nov 2011, Russell Reiter wrote:
,,,
>>  Anyone who aliases a standard command to anything that changes its
>>  basic behaviour deserves all the grief they can get. (I know some
>>  distros do that, but it's still stupid -- and sometimes dangerous!)
>>
>>  'clobber on > and append on >>' is the standard behaviour.
>>
>>  If noclobber is set, then both will fail if file3.pdf exists and
>>  succeed if it doesn't.
>
> I understand this is the convention.

    It is the specification, and it is consistent with the original
    Bourne shell, and all Bourne-type shells that followed it. (I think
    even csh follows the same rules.)

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