Why not update sed to create the backup file only if the suffix is given to -i,
like gnu sed does.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Devin Teske
Sent: 05/12/2017 07:35
To: Hans Petter Selasky
Cc: rgri...@freebsd.org; c...@freebsd.org; Eitan Adler; src-committers;
svn-src-...@freebsd.org; svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: svn commit: r326554 - in head: . usr.bin/sponge
usr.bin/sponge/tests usr.bin/tee
> On Dec 5, 2017, at 5:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <h...@selasky.org> wrote:
>
>> On 12/05/17 13:58, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>> Further more, why does freebsd need this in base?
>
> Hi,
>
> I think this is useful. It could replace the "-i " (intermediate) option for
> "sed" for example. It avoids creating temporary files when filtering files,
> right?
>
> --HPS
>
Wth is wrong with:
data=$( sed -e '...' somefile ) &&
echo "$data" > somefile
or
set -e
data=...
echo "$data" > ...
or
exec 3<<EOF
$( ... )
EOF
cat > ... <&3
or
(I digress)
Infinite variations, but the gist is that sponge looks to be trying to help
sh(1)/similar when help is unneeded.
Why buffer data into memory via fork-exec-pipe to sponge when you can buffer to
native namespace without pipe to sponge?
Am I missing something? Why do we need sponge(1)?
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Devin
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