Perplexed

[Bill Jonas]

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On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:15:27PM -0700, Michael Havens wrote:
> Would doing this:
>=20
> [bmike1@localhost training]$ uniq test-sor  |tee test-sor
>=20
> work for this purpose?

Did you try it and find out? ;-)

I think at best, it could create a zero-length file.  At worst, it could
create an infinite loop.  Can you spot the race condition? :)

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