On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 01:06:20PM -0400, David Shaw wrote:
> It is safe to do:
> mutt-alias-dedupe < your-alias-file > your-alias-file
>
> as the new file is not written until the old one is completely read.
Er, I take that back. It is safe to do:
cat your-alias-file | mutt-alias-dedupe > your-alias-file
If you do the command from my original post, the shell will clobber the
original file before the perl script gets to do its thing.
David
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