bug#13028: inplace

[Ruediger Meier]

On Thursday 29 November 2012, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, 14 May 2004 15:53:04 +0600 (YEKST), Victor Porton offered his
> handy "inplace" script to coreutils, which runs a filter on a file
> in-place. A couple of replies said there was no need for this as one
> could do in-place editing with perl or sed, but I think that was
> misguided, as the point of inplace is that it works with any filter.
> I just used it with xml_grep:
>
> inplace "xml_grep --exclude 'address@hidden"toc\"]' \"\$IN\" >
> \"\$OUT\"" "$book.xhtml"
>
> I attach an updated version of inplace with some bashisms and typos
> fixed.

You may also have a look at sponge from moreutils project
http://linux.die.net/man/1/sponge
http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/


cu,
Rudi