[TAG] 2c tip: filtering in-place

[Thomas Adam]

 --- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote: 

> > buffer < foo | filter > foo
> 
> <interrupts self while raising hand to complain>
> 
> Oh, cause buffer reads the entire file before the '>' can stomp it?
> 
> Well, that's not *exactly* the same... :-)

What do you mean, Jay?
 
> Doesn't that still depend on order of evaluation by the shell?  Is that
> defined?

Well, yes....

1. buffer < foo
2. | filer is acted upon
3. Resultant output to file

-- Thomas Adam

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