OraFAQ Forum: Unix » Redirect to the same file

Home » Infrastructure » Unix » Redirect to the same file

Show: Today's Messages :: Polls :: Message Navigator
E-mail to friend

Redirect to the same file [message #161866]

Tue, 07 March 2006 10:05

Daxesh
Messages: 61
Registered: July 2004

Member

Hello Friends,

I have really simple question on Unix.

I have one big file (test1.txt). Now I want to keep last 10 lines from this file with the same file name.

I was thinking to do like this

tail -10 test1.txt > test1.txt

But in this case my file size become '0'

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks again Mad

Report message to a moderator

Re: Redirect to the same file [message #162121 is a reply to message #161866]

Wed, 08 March 2006 19:11

rleishman
Messages: 3728
Registered: October 2005
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Senior Member

Not the way you want. Best way is:

tail -10 test1.txt > .tmp.test1.txt && mv .tmp.test1.txt test1.txt

_____________
Ross Leishman

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	why unix is preferred
Next Topic:	Displaying LONG Type columns using SQL

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Tue Jun 02 03:32:03 CDT 2026