Re: Things to avoid typing at a command prompt

From: Juha Nieminen <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:25:24 GMT

jellybean stonerfish wrote:

$ cat myfile
This is a file
$ echo $(cat myfile) > myfile
$ cat myfile
This is a file

The following does hose myfile:

$ cat myfile
This is a file
$ cat myfile | cat > myfile
$ cat myfile
$

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