> On 11/29/2012 03:20 PM, 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...
Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> said: > I definitely think this is worthwhile. > In fact I mostly finished such a script here > that would handle all the atomic, backup, permissions, etc.: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00213.html > See also: http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html ... > Also I was wondering what to call it. rp, inplace, replace, ... > and in the meantime I noticed David Wheeler proposed much the same thing > with the "rewrite" util: > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/5348 ... > I'll work on this script after I finish a pending > SELinux patchset I'm working on. I'm delighted to hear that people are working this... thank you! A request: Please make sure you include single-letter flags for key options; that'll help get it into the POSIX spec. People are more likely to use tools like these if their interface is "available everywhere", and I think getting it (eventually) into the POSIX spec would help make that happen. Also, please maximally steal useful syntax/examples/ideas from: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/5348 My hope is that this in-place edit tool will just "do the job well". --- David A. Wheeler
