Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
Huh, never new about '--in-place' (sure wish I did!). But what is
'recode'? I don't seem to have a "recode", nor do I see anything
about "recode" in sed. Did you mean iconv? (Maybe the real answer
is 'coreutils already has d2u and friends, they just aren't
obvious'?)
I think that a program to make it easy to _other_ programs to keep the
date unmodified would be useful, same for a program that would make it
easy to do in-place hacks.
Agreed... although I think it might be best if the former were an option
of the latter.
Not sure how such a thing would look like though...
"inplace --keepdate <file> -- <prog> <args>"
i.e. it would have to take the program to run (with args) as args; it
would then read '<file>', pipe it to '<prog> <args>' (which it would
fork() exec()) as stdin, and take <prog>'s stdout and write that back to
<file> (and would have to either use a temp file or a Really Big Buffer
since of course you can't safely overlay while reading).
...and I suppose it would work like 'xargs -n1' if given more than one file.
--
Matthew
$ kill bill
kill: can't find process "bill"
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