Editing EditInPlace

You cannot edit a file in place with awk. What you should do is direct your output to a temporary file, and, if everything is fine, rename the temporary file: {{{ sh awk '{do whatever}' originalfile.txt > tmpfile.txt && mv tmpfile.txt originalfile.txt }}} If you have special requirements, you can of course use something more sophisticated like mktemp to create the temporary file. (and, by the way, sed or perl, when given the -i option, create a temporary file behind the scenes and then rename it anyway). If you are brave and are happy at the idea of losing your data in case of a crash happening while the program is running, you can do something like this: {{{ awk awk '{do whatever;line[NR]=$0} END{close(ARGV[1]) for(i=1;i<=NR;i++){ print line[i] > ARGV[1] } }' originalfile.txt }}}

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