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| 2 | .sp 1 |
| 3 | .RS |
| 4 | .nf |
| 5 | .ft B |
| 6 | .. |
| 7 | .de VE |
| 8 | .ft R |
| 9 | .fi |
| 10 | .RE |
| 11 | .sp 1 |
| 12 | .. |
| 13 | .TH create 1 "5 February 2005" "Edgeware tools" |
| 14 | .SH NAME |
| 15 | create \- write new file safely |
| 16 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 17 | .B create |
| 18 | .I file |
| 19 | .I program |
| 20 | .RI [ arguments ...] |
| 21 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 22 | The |
| 23 | .B create |
| 24 | program |
| 25 | runs |
| 26 | .VS |
| 27 | .IR "program arguments " ... |
| 28 | .VE |
| 29 | redirecting standard output to |
| 30 | .IR file \c |
| 31 | .BR .new . |
| 32 | If |
| 33 | .I program |
| 34 | exits successfully, |
| 35 | .B create |
| 36 | will rename the newly-written |
| 37 | .IB file .new |
| 38 | to simply |
| 39 | .I file |
| 40 | and exit zero; otherwise it deletes |
| 41 | .IB file .new |
| 42 | and exits the same as |
| 43 | .I program |
| 44 | did. |
| 45 | .SH BUGS |
| 46 | Doesn't exit correctly if subprogram was killed by a signal. |
| 47 | .SH AUTHOR |
| 48 | Mark Wooding (mdw@nsict.org). |