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Old 03-02-2006
monkfan monkfan is offline
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Opening output file while still in process

Dear guru,

Say I have a long process that is executed in this way:

$ nohup perl mycode.pl > output.txt &

Now if I want to view the output file with vi, while process
still running:

$ vi output.txt

Will it kill the process? (seems to me it does). If so how can view the file
without having to kill it.

Thanks and hope to hear from you again.

Regards,
Edward