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Thursday 19 May 2016 23:08:05, Mike Frysinger wrote : |
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> On 18 May 2016 22:25, aidecoe@g.o wrote: |
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> > awk doesn't have the -i option like sed and if editing file in place is |
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> > desired, additional steps are required. eawk uses tmp file to make it |
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> > look to the caller editing happens in place. |
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> what's your real use case ? i've never once thought "man, i wish i could |
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> run an awk script and modify a file in place". and i write awk most days. |
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> -mike |
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Same question. Why would you ever want to run awk and have it in-place edit a |
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file? Have you ever heard about Perl? In place editing a file with it is as |
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easy as ABC: |
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$ perl -i'' -ne 's/foo/bar/g;' file.txt |
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And you're done. If you don't fancy Perl, you could use Ruby with the exact |
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same syntax and it works just as well. Then add either of these to DEPEND and |
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you're set. |
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Please walk us through why you actually want this function to be added cause I |
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read this thread and your diff like 10 times and couldn't come up with a |
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sensible reason which would justify this change. |
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Patrice Clement |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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