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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem in redirection of output Post 302459871 by aishsimplesweet on Tuesday 5th of October 2010 01:55:49 PM
Old 10-05-2010
Problem in redirection of output
Hi All,

i m facing very strange problem . like suppose i am in one directory and then i type ls
it will display the content of directory then i redirect the output as

Code:
sneha-pardus $   ls > test
sneha-pardus $   cat test
a.sh b.sh c.sh
sneha-pardus $ awk ' { print $1 } ' test > test
sneha-pardus $ cat test
sneha-pardus $

it shows nothing why can't we use same file in awk and then for redirection

please help me regarding this
Last edited by Scott; 10-05-2010 at 03:13 PM.. Reason: Code tags, please...
 

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