Re: about the symbol ">"

[Henning Makholm]

Scripsit Yonghai Zhang <address@hidden>

> the GNU-make over the internet. I found that there is no explanation or
> reference to the symbol ">" in the file and this prevents me from
> further reading. Could you please show me something about that?

The symbol '>' is commonly used in mathematics to mean "is (strictly)
greater than". It is also commonly used in un*x (and un*x-derived)
shells to override the default destination for a command's standard
output stream.

GNU make does no special processing of the '>' character, except that
on certain non-un*x operating systems it attempts to emulate the
un*x-shell behavior.

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