* Jack Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Also, isn't this statement clobbing your $FILE?
>>
>> > cat $FILE | tr "\r" "\n" > $FILE
>>
>> Nope, Linux handles it in its stride. :-)
> Cool, if I tried something like that on Solaris it would be clobbered in an
> instanct. Nice to know Linux is "thinking ahead" : )
Oops, looks like I'll have to take back what I said. :( It would seem
that if the file is over a certain size (not sure of the limit) it
will, indeed, get clobbered. When I ran my script I lost a half dozen
or so of the files I was altering. Bummer.
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