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| From | Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.awk |
| Subject | GNU Awk - inplace editing |
| Date | 2025-05-23 07:28 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <100p11m$3uh3m$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
In GNU Awk I was looking for the in-place option (similar to sed -i). I thought there once was some _simple_ option usable from the command line. (Or am I misremembering?) The manual now suggests to use a GNU Awk "inplace" _Extension_ for that gawk -i inplace ... and gawk -i inplace -v inplace::suffix=.bak ... respectively. That's not exactly as simple to use as, say, gawk -i ... and gawk -i.bak so I suppose there's a reason for the added complexity in the handling. Does anyone know that reason or remember a rationale? - I don't recall any discussions about that... Janis
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GNU Awk - inplace editing Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-23 07:28 +0200
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-23 06:02 +0000
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2025-05-23 08:22 +0000
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> - 2025-05-23 08:58 +0000
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-23 16:08 +0200
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) - 2025-05-25 04:00 +0000
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> - 2025-05-25 15:27 -0500
Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2025-05-26 02:11 +0200
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