'How can I force redirect using > in csh to clobber existing file?

OSTYPE=linux
OS_KERNEL_VERSION=3.10.0
csh

When I try to clobber an existing file using redirect ">" I get an error... "File exists."

% date > the.log
% echo $?
0
% date > the.log
the.log: File exists.
% echo $?
1

How can I simply force the clobber of "the.log" without getting the error ?

Update: This appears to be happening on one server but not others. So it's a server specific thing... some sort of config setting ?

linux


Solution 1:[1]

In linux you cannot have two files with same name,once check using ls commadn,if you dont want error give % date > the.log 2>&1 for both error and sucess to fall to log file

Solution 2:[2]

Thanks Harish for the reply. But vgersh99 got it right (the 2nd time). For csh, you need the '!'. Something to do with a noclobber setting in the shell.

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Solution 1 harish chilukuri
Solution 2 daveg

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