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-rw-r--r--coreutils/sort.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/coreutils/sort.c b/coreutils/sort.c
index 716824321..eccc2d437 100644
--- a/coreutils/sort.c
+++ b/coreutils/sort.c
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ int sort_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
#if ENABLE_FEATURE_SORT_BIG
/* Open output file _after_ we read all input ones */
if (option_mask32 & FLAG_o)
- xmove_fd(xopen(str_o, O_WRONLY), STDOUT_FILENO);
+ xmove_fd(xopen(str_o, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC), STDOUT_FILENO);
#endif
flag = (option_mask32 & FLAG_z) ? '\0' : '\n';
for (i = 0; i < linecount; i++)