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Not really shorter as I have to Ctrl+C to get back to shell afterwards.

Anyways my zsh has noclobber set so your command fails with error: zsh: file exists: ~/.vimrc

> ~/.vimrc works on bash, but it hangs on zsh because it treats it like cat > ~/.vimrc (> without any command in front of it is not well defined in POSIX) So portable way to do this is like this:

:> ~/.vimrc

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