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Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request
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arnold |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:48:54 -0700 |
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Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 |
Hi Ed.
> Arnold - does the proposed solution allow the user to write:
>
> gawk -X 'script' file
>
> where "X" is some appropriate letter and the result is to update "file"
> with the result of executing "script" on the original contents of "file"?
>
> I just want to make sure we're talking about implementing something every
> bit as simple to use as the sed, perl, and ruby equivalents otherwise
> it's probably not worth bothering with.
It would be
gawk -i inplace 'script' file
There is nothing stopping anyone from writing a one line wrapper:
$ cat aip # Awk In Place
#! /bin/sh
exec gawk -i inplace "$@"
Arnold
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, (continued)
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Aharon Robbins, 2012/12/25
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/25
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, arnold, 2012/12/26
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/26
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Andrew J. Schorr, 2012/12/26
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/12/26
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Andrew J. Schorr, 2012/12/26
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, arnold, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request,
arnold <=
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Andrew J. Schorr, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Andrew J. Schorr, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Andrew J. Schorr, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Aharon Robbins, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Ed Morton, 2012/12/31
- Re: [bug-gawk] in-place edit request, Manuel Collado, 2012/12/31