I want to learn to use the shell and was wondering why this …

This message is part of the following thread:
	the complete thread tree sorted by date
	Michael Havens at
	Kevin Buettner at

Attachments:
Message as email (text/plain)

Author: Jeremy C. Reed
Date:
Subject: I want to learn to use the shell and was wondering why this didn't do as expected

On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Michael Havens wrote:

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

The shell deleted mypasswd (when you did ">mypasswd") before you tried to
sort it.

See Bill Jonas's email for good explanation.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/

This message was posted to the following mailing lists:
Plug Discuss Mailing List Info \| Nearby Messages		I want to learn to use the shell and was wondering why this didn't do as expected	I want to learn to use the shell and was wondering why this d idn't do as expected

Some Mailing List Archive administrated by Unconfigured

Lurker (version 2.3)