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Old 01-14-2015
I'm missing something here. If you're copying the contents of a file to another temp file in order to query it, why not just examine the contents of the original file?

Why do this:

read data -> write data -> read data -> process data

when you can just do this:

read data -> process data
# 16  
Old 01-14-2015
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Originally Posted by achenle
I'm missing something here. If you're copying the contents of a file to another temp file in order to query it, why not just examine the contents of the original file?
It's not a local file, it's a local copy of a file on a remote system.
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