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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!news.nobody.at!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail From: mack@the-knife.org (Mack The Knife) Newsgroups: comp.lang.awk Subject: Re: GNU Awk - inplace editing References: <100p11m$3uh3m$1@dont-email.me> Organization: Knife Sharpeners, Inc. X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: 25 May 2025 04:00:02 GMT Lines: 20 Message-ID: <683295c2$0$687$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 0020e557.news.sunsite.dk X-Trace: 1748145602 news.sunsite.dk 687 arnold@skeeve.com/147.236.215.54:57272 X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Bytes: 1501 In article <100p11m$3uh3m$1@dont-email.me>, Janis Papanagnou wrote: >In GNU Awk I was looking for the in-place option (similar to sed -i). >I thought there once was some _simple_ option usable from the command >line. (Or am I misremembering?) You are misremembering. >The manual now suggests to use a GNU Awk "inplace" _Extension_ for that > gawk -i inplace ... >and > gawk -i inplace -v inplace::suffix=.bak ... >respectively. > .... >Does anyone know that reason or remember a rationale? - I don't recall >any discussions about that... It was done with an extension because the maintainer saw no reason to add Yet Another Option and Still More Code That Would See Very Little Use into the main core of gawk.