Re: overwrite any file with updatedb

[kragen () pobox com (Kragen)]

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998, Cain wrote:
> On many linux systems(Redhat imparticularly) updatedb is run nightly
> around 1:00. When it sorts the files that find gets, it creats a few files
> in /tmp called sort0<pid>000{1,2,etc}. . . .

I should point out that it's actually /bin/sort that creates these
files.  The Solaris /bin/sort does the same, last I checked, which
probably means most Unix implementations of sort do the same.

Whether other implementations of sort are smarter than GNU sort with
symlinks, etc., I don't know.

Kragen