bug#13028: inplace

[Reuben Thomas]

On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> I definitely think this is worthwhile.
>

Great!


> Where to put such a script is an issue.
> We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level
> scripts like this that could leverage coreutils/
> Translations in the shell script was one thing that was
> I was wondering about, which I need to look at.
>

Is there a reason it can't be shipped so it'll install as part of coreutils?


> rewrite is my favorite name so far.
>

It sounds better, but I'd favour "inplace" as it's the term used by most
utilities, like Perl and sed, that already provide such a built-in
facility, and is hence more easily discovered.


> I'll work on this script after I finish a pending
> SELinux patchset I'm working on.


Great!

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