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Date:      Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:19:23 -0400
From:      Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org>, Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>
Cc:        Pete Fritchman <petef@absolutbsd.org>, <portmgr@freebsd.org>, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, <cvs-committers@freebsd.org>, <cvs-all@freebsd.org>, <jmallett@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Mk bsd.port.mk
Message-ID:  <200206141319.23636.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com>
In-Reply-To: <86k7p16c4q.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
References:  <200206141102.50292.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20020614113752.K11520-100000@blues.jpj.net> <86k7p16c4q.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>

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On Friday 14 June 2002 12:47 pm, Akinori MUSHA wrote:
= At Fri, 14 Jun 2002 11:49:51 -0400 (EDT),
= Trevor Johnson wrote:
= > Mikhail Teterin wrote:
= >
= > > But the macro could be implemented without using the -i option --
= > > mktemp(1) is with us since FreeBSD-2.2.7...
= >
= > That sounds like the best idea.  I don't know how to write such a macro
= > though.  Would you mind writing it?
=
= How about writing inplace(1) instead?

``Instead'' is not going to work :-) Even if we drop everything, the
new utility will not make it into the 4.6 or the previous releases,
for which ports still have to work.

= It should be generally useful because you can use any filter command
= such as sed(1), awk(1), grep(1), sort(1), uniq(1), and so on with it.
= The name and the sinopsis would be a matter of controversy, though.

Indeed... Some sort of integration with xargs(1) will also be needed :)

=
= NAME
=      inplace - processes a file through a filter command inplace
[...]

	-mi


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