bug#9430: [PATCH] Add new option --in-place

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 9430 wontfix
close 9430
stop

(Triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 03/09/11 10:50 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>
> Picking up on an 18-month-old thread, Egan McComb found the
> tool I'd seen: sponge:
>
>    Egan McComb wrote:
>    >
>    > The program that works similarly is called sponge, from the moreutils
>    > project at http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils/. It is used as a
>    > filter in a pipe:
>    >
>    >         for FILE in *.c; do cppi ...options $FILE | sponge; done
>    >
> It's a fine argument for not adding an --in-place option.
> It could use a --backup option, though.


With 'sponge' existing, Pádraig's post about file replacement[1],
and no further activity of this bug in 7 years, I'm opting to mark it
as "wontfix" and close it. We can always re-open it if needed.

Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

[1] https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix_file_replacement.html

regards,
 - assaf