On 11/29/2012 03:32 PM, Ruediger Meier wrote:
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/
sponge is good, but doesn't quite cut it.
See point 6 at: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html
thanks,
Pádraig.
