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From: rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do <cmd> file | hold file
Message-ID: <1727@pbhyd.PacBell.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 22:47:35 GMT
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Reply-To: rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
Organization: Back At Pacific Bell Again
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>                          ...suppose I want to sort a file
>and place the result in the same file without destroying it,

Doesn't 'sort' allow you to do this already in one easy step?

	sort -o<file> <samefile>

...or did I misunderstand the question?
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