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View valid 'top' output on the desktop via GeekTool
Authored by: jaysoffian on Aug 09, '06 11:21:46PM

Indeed you're correct. Opening with ">>" uses O_APPEND which apparently causes the system to seek to the end of the file on each and every write, not just the first.

I thought I used >> in my test, but apparently I used >.

I guess you learn something every day. :-)

j.



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