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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: I want to learn to use the shell and was wondering why this didn't do as expected

On Thursday 20 February 2003 01:07 pm, Eric Andresen wrote:
> Try: cat mypasswd |sort

Why did my version (sort mypasswd >mypasswd |cat mypasswd) erase it?
--=20
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