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6 inplace - emulate sed/perl/ruby in-place editing
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9 gawk -i inplace ...
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12 The inplace extension adds two functions named inplace_begin() and
13 inplace_end(). These functions are meant to be invoked from the
14 inplace.awk wrapper which is installed when gawk is.
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16 By default, each named file on the command line is replaced with a new
17 file of the same name whose contents are the results of running the AWK
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20 catenates that suffix onto the original filename and uses the result as
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23 One can disable inplace editing selectively by placing inplace=0 on the
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29 While the extension does attempt to preserve ownership and permissions,
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36 gawk -i inplace 'script' files ...
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40 GAWK: Effective AWK Programming, filefuncs(3am), fnmatch(3am),
41 fork(3am), ordchr(3am), readdir(3am), readfile(3am), revoutput(3am),
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45 Andrew Schorr, schorr@telemetry-investments.com.
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