At 03:50 PM 2/13/95 EST, Jeff Kell wrote:
>Ever wanted to replace a program file that someone's using? Piece of
>cake. Get in the shell, rm the currently-accessed one, and mv the new
>one in it's place. It works, and subsequent accessors get the new file.
I'm deja vu'ing on this, but here goes anyway...
I believe a safer method is to rn (rename) the accessed file to a .bak or
.old equivalent, then replace it.
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