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From: wolfgang@wsrcc.com (Wolfgang S. Rupprecht)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: cat, pipes, and filters
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.051958.26855@wsrcc.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 05:19:58 GMT
References: <1991May31.165446.1530@progress.com> <16438@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <13798@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <24071: Jun214:03:1191@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
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>More to the point, if you want to have blah read foo and write its
>output to a new copy of foo, do something like this:
>  ( rm foo; blah > foo ) < foo

Will this work if "foo" is an NFS file?

-wolfgang
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