"Charlie Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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