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From: fabrice@sj.ate.slb.com (Fabrice Le Metayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: How to do <cmd> file | hold file
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Date: 8 Sep 90 05:46:23 GMT
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In article <1727@pbhyd.PacBell.COM> rjw@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams) writes:
>>                          ...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?

I use the following C-shell alias to get the output of a command into
the file it applies to. The command should be of the form "<cmd line> <file>".

	alias apply  \!\* \> /tmp/apply.\$\$ \; cp /tmp/apply.\$\$ \!\$
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