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Old 03-02-2006
gauravgoel gauravgoel is offline
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Originally Posted by monkfan
Thanks. One more thing, how about copying file before opening it?

$cp outfile.txt newname.txt

$vi newname.txt

Will it kill the process?
No it will not kill the process

Gaurav