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| From | Ed Morton <mortonspam@gmail.com> |
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| Subject | Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing |
| Date | Sun, 25 May 2025 15:27:27 -0500 |
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On 5/23/2025 12:28 AM, Janis Papanagnou 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... The somewhat lengthy discussion at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gawk/2012-12/msg00046.html may (or may not) be useful. Ed.
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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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