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editing files contents

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navarro1

navarro1

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Jun 11, 2003
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How can I transfer the contents of file1 to file2 and the contents of file2 to file1 ?

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Code: 
   mv file1 file.tmp
   mv file2 file1
   mv file.tmp file2
Hope this helps.

 
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I thougth it would be easier to flap names, but I didn't want to merge files.
Thanks for your reply
 
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