you mean that it writes to tet-sor first? So then the proper wa6y to do =
this=20
would be uniq test-so |>test-sor ?
On Friday 28 February 2003 04:32 pm, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> On Feb 28, 4:26pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> > Why would I have a file, uniq the output, have the output redirected =
to a
> > file, and the file be blank when I tried to look at it?
>
> [...]
>
> > [bmike1@localhost training]$ uniq test-sor >test-sor
> > [bmike1@localhost training]$ more test-sor
>
> Because the file is truncated by the shell before ``uniq'' gets to oper=
ate
> on it. By the time ``uniq'' opens it, it's already empty.
>
> Kevin
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