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From: | Paul Jarc |
Subject: | Re: merge sort temporary files |
Date: | Fri, 14 May 2004 11:48:15 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
"Charlie Gordon" <address@hidden> wrote: > sort should first try to unlink the output file before opening it in > "w" mode. cat would keep reading the old file while sort writes to > a new file with the same name. That would break hard links, which might not be desirable. paul
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