Perplexed

[Bill Jonas]

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:49:45PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> you mean that it writes to  tet-sor first?

No, it *prepares* test-sor for writing first.  In this case, the single
'>' indicates overwriting the file if it exists.  '>>', of course, would
indicate that you want to append to the file if it exists, but that will
cause problems.  (Think infinite loop, or a race condition at the very
least.)

On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 05:43:13PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> Well DUH! I know what you mean.... but isn't there an easier way to write=
 the=20
> sorted file to the same file name (rather than renaming a tmp file)? If n=
ot I=20
> say that there should be!

Try <http://www.billjonas.com/code/#owrite>.  No warranty, blah blah.
;-)

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