*nix: "echo 'start working' > /etc/.example" : how is this implemented?
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Say someone executes the following in a terminal:
echo 'start working' > /etc/.example
and when this is executed, the example program would "start working."
On UNIX(-like) systems, how would something like that be implemented, and what is this kind of behavior called?
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