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Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing

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In article <100p11m$3uh3m$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
>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...

I've explained this a few times over the years (in this newsgroup).

There was never a "-i" option in Gawk that meant "inplace" (and there never
will be).

The key to understanding this is to understand that (in Gawk), the "i" in
"-i" does not stand for "inplace".  It stands for "include".

Once you understand that, all becomes clear.

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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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