OT: cat and tail

[Brandon Allbery]

On Dec 18, 2009, at 23:02 , Scott Haneda wrote:
> # make a copy of the file and also clear it cd /path/to/ cat  
> running_log > stale_log && echo "" > running_log


mv running_log running_log.old && touch running_log && cat  
running_log.old >stale.log

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