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vram22
on Aug 27, 2014
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Useful Unix commands for exploring data
The classic book "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernighan and Pike, has a tool in it, called 'overwrite', that does this - letting you safely overwrite a file with the result of a oommand or pipeline, IIRC.
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