tags 9430 wontfix close 9430 stop (Triaging old bugs)
Hello, On 03/09/11 10:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
Jim Meyering wrote: Picking up on an 18-month-old thread, Egan McComb found the tool I'd seen: sponge: Egan McComb wrote: > > The program that works similarly is called sponge, from the moreutils > project at http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils/. It is used as a > filter in a pipe: > > for FILE in *.c; do cppi ...options $FILE | sponge; done > It's a fine argument for not adding an --in-place option. It could use a --backup option, though.
With 'sponge' existing, Pádraig's post about file replacement[1], and no further activity of this bug in 7 years, I'm opting to mark it as "wontfix" and close it. We can always re-open it if needed. Discussion can continue by replying to this thread. [1] https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html regards, - assaf
