| a 'delayed output operator' like e.g. >|| that would first create | an exclusive temporary (dot-)file in the same directory
Or maybe bra and ket instead: There is a probability that the file may show up, but it may not... It only does if all commands in the pipe had 0 as exit status and then has a new inode number I could test with stat or ls -i if I have to know. If any non-zero exit status, then the old file stays in place (if there was one), and I can try again. Just having some fun with/at quantum physics. :-) <| tr -d \\r myfile.txt | nl | iconv -fL1 -tU8 |> myfile.txt || print -u2 "try again" Markus _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
