cat, pipes, and filters

[Marc Kwiatkowski {Host Software-AIX}]

In article <1991May31.165446.1530 at progress.com> root at progress.COM (Root of all Evil) writes:

	[stuff about inability to redirect standard in and standard
	 out to the same file omitted.]

This problem and a good solution are discussed thoroughly in 
"The Unix Programming Environment, B.W. Kernighan and R. Pike, 
Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-937699-2."  They provide a generalized 
bourne shell script that will work with any arbitrary command, and is 
fairly robust, called "overwrite"

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