On Thursday 29 November 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his > handy "inplace" script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file > in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this as one > could do in-place editing with perl or sed, but I think that was > misguided, as the point of inplace is that it works with any filter. > I just used it with xml_grep: > > inplace "xml_grep --exclude 'ul[@class=\"toc\"]' \"\$IN\" > > \"\$OUT\"" "$book.xhtml" > > I attach an updated version of inplace with some bashisms and typos > fixed.
You may also have a look at sponge from moreutils project http://linux.die.net/man/1/sponge http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ cu, Rudi
