In cygwin, the following code works fine
$ cat junk
bat
bat
bat
$ cat junk | sort -k1,1 |tr 'b' 'z' > junk
$ cat junk
zat
zat
zat
But in the linux shell(GNU/Linux), it seems that overwriting doesn't work
[41] othershell: cat junk
cat
cat
cat
[42] othershell: cat junk |sort -k1,1 |tr 'c' 'z'
zat
zat
zat
[43] othershell: cat junk |sort -k1,1 |tr 'c' 'z' > junk
[44] othershell: cat junk
Both environments run BASH.
I am asking this because sometimes after I do text manipulation, because of this caveat, I am forced to make the tmp file. But I know in Perl, you can give "i" flag to overwrite the original file after some operations/manipulations. I just want to ask if there is any foolproof method in unix pipeline to overwrite the file that I am not aware of.
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