Re: [gentoo-dev] newins "-" for standard input?

[Timothy Redaelli]

On Monday 23 March 2009 09:22:06 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> Now that "dosed" is going to be banned, what would people think of
> "newins" (and the other "new*" commands) accepting "-" as the first
> argument? I don't know how many usage cases there are, but the
> following are obvious:
>
>    sed 's/quux/quuux/' foo | newins - foo
>
> It would allow for here documents:
>
>    newins - bar <<-EOF
>    # configuration file (for example)
>    EOF
>
> or even:
>
>    newins - baz <<<$'# a short\n# file'

Why can't you use "newins /dev/stdin foo" that it works out of the box?

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Timothy `Drizzt` Redaelli
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