Hi, On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:43:13PM +0100, Olivier Lemaire wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > > * Package name : chgrep > Version : 1.2.4 > Upstream Author : Bartosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.bmk.bicom.pl/chgrep/ > * License : (PL ^^^ What is this license exactly? Is it free?
> Description : change oldpattern to newpattern in files > > Description: change oldpattern to newpattern in files > Chgrep searches the input files (or standard input if no files > are named) for oldstring and changes them to newstring. > If some file and file.lock exist then chgrep leaves both files > unchanged. > You can write NEWPATTERN as "NULL" to clear OLDPATTERNE, i.e, > "chgrep oldstring NULL somefile.c". > > A proposal package, tested on i386 may be found in this > repository (testing main): > deb http://olivier-lemaire.org/debian testing main > > I'm willing to maintain this package. > > Any comments/critics/flame => [EMAIL PROTECTED] > as this is my first debian package. Well, to be honnest, I have some doubts about the usefullness of this package? Can't it always be replaced by a trivial sed command? Moreover, what if I want to replace all instances of some pattern with NULL (yes, those 4 updase letters)? Is there at least some way I can escape it? Why not simply using a empty string when one wants to remove all instances of some pattern? Cheers, Nicolas
