Matthew Woehlke wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| So far, it includes the following utilities:
| - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
Eh? That sounds like 'cat file'...
I was wondering that too.
It basically buffers the file in mem
so that one can modify a file through a
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I like this sort of general purpose utility that can work with a broad
set of things much better than hacks to every utility. It is
definitely a better direction.
But I don't like the name. The name is too generic and
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From: Bo Borgerson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:54:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add new program: magic
* AUTHORS: Register as the author.
* NEWS: Advertise new program.
* README: List new program.
* doc/coreutils.texi: Describe new program.
* man
Bo Borgerson wrote:
As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be
more broadly useful. Any utility that can operate on multiple input
files could benefit. I wondered if it would be possible in a
non-invasive way to provide this service to other tools. This is what
I
Hi Bo,
As I mentioned last week, I've patched my local `sort' to allow
automatic decompression of input files if an option, --magic-open, is
passed on the command line.
As I thought more about this functionality I realized that it may be
more broadly useful. Any utility that can operate on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| So far, it includes the following utilities:
| - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
Eh? That sounds like 'cat file'...
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Matthew
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:52 PM, Matthew Woehlke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| So far, it includes the following utilities:
| - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
Eh? That sounds like 'cat file'...
So you can read from and write to an existing
