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commit 88fd38406ba91e38fae963af580168cfcddf2ce2
parent 71e3222cdf4cf7ef072d7e1b0baf9fe4ec0f567c
Author: Jacob R. Edwards <jacobouno@protonmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 20:01:33 -0700

Add shell function to ease in-place file editing

The bwrite function redirects stdin into a temporary file and, once
complete, moves it to the given file. This allows you to easily
write to the input file.

Diffstat:
M
local/shell/.config/shell/etc
 | 
7
+++++++

1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/local/shell/.config/shell/etc b/local/shell/.config/shell/etc
@@ -13,3 +13,10 @@ tp() {
 	*) printf '%s: arguments must be 'y' or 'n'\n' $__progname;;
 	esac
 }
+
+# e.g. grep -i ^a <words | bwrite words
+bwrite() (
+	tmp="$(mktemp -t proc-XXXXXXXXXX)"
+	cat >"$tmp"
+	mv "$tmp" "$1"
+)