Hi Kilian, Thank you very much for sponsoring the rrep package and for you comments! That was really quick. I will prepare an update for the package which will address all of your concerns.
On 08/01/2011 11:29 PM, Kilian Krause wrote: > Regarding your rationale that sed doesn't have a matching algorithm I tend > to disagree. sed does have pattern matching like '/whatever/s,what,who,' > which will only rewrite all lines that have "whatever" to "whoever". Yet > I'll not regard this to stand in the way of accepting your package into > Debian. ;-) Yes, you are right. I was referring to processing of multiple files similar to what grep can do. grep is intended for searching patterns in files. It has all the functionality build-in to do the job. Directories can be processed recursively, specific files can be selected using the --include options, etc. Sed, on the other hand, is intended to be a stream editor. It is not intended to be for replacing, what grep is for searching. If you want to do the same for replacing as grep does for searching, then you have to use more than one utility: sed, find and xargs or exec. So, if you are not so familiar with all of these utilities, then you have to search for documentation in different places, which makes the task less accessible. Thanks again, Arno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
