On 29 November 2012 at 19:16, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 11/29/2012 07:03 PM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> On 29 November 2012 15:35, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> >> >>> I definitely think this is worthwhile. >>> >>> >> Great! >> >> >> Where to put such a script is an issue. >>> We were thinking of a contrib/ folder for higher level >>> scripts like this that could leverage coreutils/ >>> Translations in the shell script was one thing that was >>> I was wondering about, which I need to look at. >>> >>> >> Is there a reason it can't be shipped so it'll install as part of >> coreutils? >> > > Well contrib/ in upstream to be installed in standard locations. > > rewrite is my favorite name so far. >>> >>> >> It sounds better, but I'd favour "inplace" as it's the term used by most >> utilities, like Perl and sed, that already provide such a built-in >> facility, and is hence more easily discovered. >> > > Previous notes on naming: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2010-03/msg00238.html > > "rewrite" is more descriptive as a verb as to what is actually happening. > We can finalize on the naming anyway when we have the implementation > sorted. > ​Did this get anywhere? -- http://rrt.sc3d.org