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bug#13028: inplace


From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: bug#13028: inplace
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:16:22 +0000
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On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:


I definitely think this is worthwhile.


Great!


Where to put such a script is an issue.
We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level
scripts like this that could leverage coreutils/
Translations in the shell script was one thing that was
I was wondering about, which I need to look at.


Is there a reason it can't be shipped so it'll install as part of coreutils?

Well contrib/ in upstream to be installed in standard locations.

rewrite is my favorite name so far.


It sounds better, but I'd favour "inplace" as it's the term used by most
utilities, like Perl and sed, that already provide such a built-in
facility, and is hence more easily discovered.

Previous notes on naming:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00238.html

"rewrite" is more descriptive as a verb as to what is actually happening.
We can finalize on the naming anyway when we have the implementation sorted.

thanks,
Pádraig.





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