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+.TH INPLACE 3am "Jan 15 2013" "Free Software Foundation" "GNU Awk Extension Modules"
+.SH NAME
+inplace \- emulate sed/perl/ruby in-place editing
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.ft CW
+.nf
+@load "inplace"
+
+# Please set INPLACE_SUFFIX to make a backup copy.  For example, you may
+# want to set INPLACE_SUFFIX to .bak on the command line or in a BEGIN rule.
+
+BEGINFILE {
+    inplace_begin(FILENAME, INPLACE_SUFFIX)
+}
+
+ENDFILE {
+    inplace_end(FILENAME, INPLACE_SUFFIX)
+}
+.fi
+.ft R
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The
+.I inplace
+extension adds two functions named
+.B inplace_begin()
+and
+.BR inplace_end() .
+These functions are meant to be invoked from the
+.I inplace.awk
+wrapper (whose contents are displayed above)
+which is installed when
+.I gawk
+is.
+.PP
+By default, each named file on the command line is
+replaced with a new file of the same name whose contents
+are the results of running the AWK program.
+If the user supplies an AWK variable named
+.B INPLACE_SUFFIX
+in a
+.B BEGIN
+rule or on the command line, then the
+.I inplace
+extension concatenates that suffix onto the original
+filename and uses the result as a filename for renaming
+the original.
+... .SH NOTES
+... .SH BUGS
+.SH EXAMPLE
+.ft CW
+.nf
+gawk -i inplace '\f(CIscript\fP' files ...
+.br
+gawk -i inplace -f \f(CIscriptfile\fP files ...
+.fi
+.ft R
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.IR "GAWK: Effective AWK Programming" ,
+.IR filefuncs (3am),
+.IR fnmatch (3am),
+.IR fork (3am),
+.IR ordchr (3am),
+.IR readdir (3am),
+.IR readfile (3am),
+.IR revoutput (3am),
+.IR rwarray (3am).
+.SH AUTHOR
+Andrew Schorr,
+.BR schorr@telemetry-investments.com .
+.SH COPYING PERMISSIONS
+Copyright \(co 2012, 2013,
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.PP
+Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
+this manual page provided the copyright notice and this permission
+notice are preserved on all copies.
+.ig
+Permission is granted to process this file through troff and print the
+results, provided the printed document carries copying permission
+notice identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
+(this paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual page).
+..
+.PP
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
+manual page under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
+the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
+permission notice identical to this one.
+.PP
+Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
+manual page into another language, under the above conditions for
+modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in
+a translation approved by the Foundation.