Mario Hoerich writes:
>This sounds a bit like a truncation issue.
>
>If you do something like
>
>command1 > bar
># some code
>command2 > bar
>
>then the second redirect will truncate the file to 0 bytes
>before redirecting the output from command2 into it.
Yes.
My
# Martin McCormick:
> I wrote a Bourn Shell script which has a while loop in it that
> reads a file line by line. The output of the script is supposed to go
> to a file with a different name for each iteration of the loop. This
> scheme is obviously a rotten idea because all the new files e
I wrote a Bourn Shell script which has a while loop in it that
reads a file line by line. The output of the script is supposed to go
to a file with a different name for each iteration of the loop. This
scheme is obviously a rotten idea because all the new files end up
created, but quite e
