*nix: "echo 'start working' > /etc/.example" : how is this implemented?

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Published on 2010-04-09T01:27:26Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 1:43 UTC
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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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