bug#13028: inplace

[Reuben Thomas]

On 29 November 2012 at 19:16, Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>
> Well contrib/ in upstream to be installed in standard locations.
>
> 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.
>>
>
> Previous notes on naming:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00238.html
>
> "rewrite" is more descriptive as a verb as to what is actually happening.
> We can finalize on the naming anyway when we have the implementation
> sorted.
>

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