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authorArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2015-03-18 21:54:45 +0200
committerArnold D. Robbins <arnold@skeeve.com>2015-03-18 21:54:45 +0200
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Merge branch 'gawk-4.1-stable'
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diff --git a/extension/inplace.3am b/extension/inplace.3am
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--- a/extension/inplace.3am
+++ b/extension/inplace.3am
@@ -1,21 +1,10 @@
-.TH INPLACE 3am "Mar 16 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
+.TH INPLACE 3am "Mar 18 2015" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
.SH NAME
inplace \- emulate sed/perl/ruby in-place editing
.SH SYNOPSIS
.ft CW
.nf
-@load "inplace"
-
-# Please set INPLACE_SUFFIX to make a backup copy. For example, you may
-# want to set INPLACE_SUFFIX to .bak on the command line or in a BEGIN rule.
-
-BEGINFILE {
- inplace_begin(FILENAME, INPLACE_SUFFIX)
-}
-
-ENDFILE {
- inplace_end(FILENAME, INPLACE_SUFFIX)
-}
+gawk -i inplace ...
.fi
.ft R
.SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -27,8 +16,7 @@ and
.BR inplace_end() .
These functions are meant to be invoked from the
.I inplace.awk
-wrapper (whose contents are displayed above)
-which is installed when
+wrapper which is installed when
.I gawk
is.
.PP
@@ -45,10 +33,7 @@ extension concatenates that suffix onto the original
filename and uses the result as a filename for renaming
the original.
... .SH NOTES
-.SH BUGS
-As currently written, output from an \f(CWENDFILE\fP
-rule does not get redirected into the replacement file.
-Neither does output from an \f(CWEND\fP rule.
+... .SH BUGS
.SH EXAMPLE
.ft CW
.nf