Re: include dos2unix/unix2dos in coreutils ?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> > Huh, never new about '--in-place' (sure wish I did!). But what is
> > 'recode'? I don't seem to have a "recode", nor do I see anything
> > about "recode" in sed. Did you mean iconv? (Maybe the real answer
> > is 'coreutils already has d2u and friends, they just aren't
> > obvious'?)
>
> I think that a program to make it easy to _other_ programs to keep the
> date unmodified would be useful, same for a program that would make it
> easy to do in-place hacks.

Agreed... although I think it might be best if the former were an option 
of the latter.

> Not sure how such a thing would look like though...

"inplace --keepdate <file> -- <prog> <args>"

i.e. it would have to take the program to run (with args) as args; it 
would then read '<file>', pipe it to '<prog> <args>' (which it would 
fork() exec()) as stdin, and take <prog>'s stdout and write that back to 
<file> (and would have to either use a temp file or a Really Big Buffer 
since of course you can't safely overlay while reading).

...and I suppose it would work like 'xargs -n1' if given more than one file.

--
Matthew
$ kill bill
kill: can't find process "bill"