"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 _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
