On 20 May 2016 21:09, Amadeusz Żołnowski wrote: > Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> writes: > > On 18 May 2016 22:25, aide...@gentoo.org wrote: > >> awk doesn't have the -i option like sed and if editing file in place is > >> desired, additional steps are required. eawk uses tmp file to make it > >> look to the caller editing happens in place. > > > > what's your real use case ? i've never once thought "man, i wish i could > > run an awk script and modify a file in place". and i write awk most days. > > The same "sed -i" is used. I have some configs to edit in place in > src_prepare(). It's easier with awk rather than sed.
again, provide an example. one or two uncommon use cases doesn't justify being added to eutils. -mike
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