NAME

       inplace - emulate sed/perl/ruby in-place editing

SYNOPSIS

       gawk -i inplace ...

DESCRIPTION

       The  inplace  extension  adds two functions named inplace_begin() and inplace_end().  These functions are
       meant to be invoked from the inplace.awk wrapper which is installed when gawk is.

       By default, each named file on the command line is replaced with a  new  file  of  the  same  name  whose
       contents  are  the  results  of  running  the  AWK  program.   If the user supplies an AWK variable named
       INPLACE_SUFFIX in a BEGIN rule or on the command line,  then  the  inplace  extension  concatenates  that
       suffix onto the original filename and uses the result as a filename for renaming the original.

EXAMPLE

       gawk -i inplace 'script' files ...
       gawk -i inplace -f scriptfile files ...

SEE ALSO

       GAWK:  Effective  AWK  Programming,  filefuncs(3am),  fnmatch(3am), fork(3am), ordchr(3am), readdir(3am),
       readfile(3am), revoutput(3am), rwarray(3am).

AUTHOR

       Andrew Schorr, schorr@telemetry-investments.com.

COPYING PERMISSIONS

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Free Software Foundation                           Apr 08 2015                                      INPLACE(3am)