./sysutils/vip, Script to edit the data at any point in a pipeline

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Branch: CURRENT, Version: 19971113nb2, Package name: vip-19971113nb2, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

Normally, in a pipeline, when you need to edit some phase of the data
stream, you use a standard tool such as sed, grep, or awk to alter,
filter, or otherwise manipulate the stream. One potential problem with
this approach is that the manipulations have to be very well thought out
in advance. Another is that the manipulations will probably need to be
applied uniformly. And third, the data must be very well understood in
advance. Not all situations and data easily conform to these
constraints.

Alternatively, when the changes needed for the data are more than
trivial, or perhaps you just don't feel like expending the mental energy
needed to work out all the expressions in advance, a typical approach
might be to run some process or pipeline, dump output to a file, edit
the file with vi, pico, or emacs, then push the data along to the next
phase by using the file as input to some additional process or pipeline.
The catch here - other than the sheer awkwardness of this process - is
that you have to remember to come back later and clean up all of those
little and not-so-little "temporary" files.

So, wouldn't you just like to be able to tap in an edit session at any
arbitrary point in the pipeline, do your magic on the data, then have it
automagically continue on its merry way? The vip program provides this
functionality, and operates syntactically just like any other filter.


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   2023-12-23 10:23:23 by Zafer Aydogan | Files touched by this commit (1) | Package updated
Log message:
update master site
   2021-10-26 13:20:30 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630) 
Log message:
sysutils: Replace RMD160 checksums with BLAKE2s checksums

All checksums have been double-checked against existing RMD160 and
SHA512 hashes
   2021-10-07 16:58:44 by Nia Alarie | Files touched by this commit (630) 
Log message:
sysutils: Remove SHA1 hashes for distfiles
   2015-11-04 02:32:42 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (499) 
Log message:
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for sysutils category

Problems found with existing digests:
	Package memconf distfile memconf-2.16/memconf.gz
	b6f4b736cac388dddc5070670351cf7262aba048 [recorded]
	95748686a5ad8144232f4d4abc9bf052721a196f [calculated]

Problems found locating distfiles:
	Package dc-tools: missing distfile dc-tools/abs0-dc-burn-netbsd-1.5-0-gae55ec9
	Package ipw-firmware: missing distfile ipw2100-fw-1.2.tgz
	Package iwi-firmware: missing distfile ipw2200-fw-2.3.tgz
	Package nvnet: missing distfile nvnet-netbsd-src-20050620.tgz
	Package syslog-ng: missing distfile syslog-ng-3.7.2.tar.gz

Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden).  All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
   2014-10-09 16:07:17 by Thomas Klausner | Files touched by this commit (1163) 
Log message:
Remove pkgviews: don't set PKG_INSTALLATION_TYPES in Makefiles.
   2012-10-23 21:51:39 by Aleksej Saushev | Files touched by this commit (447) 
Log message:
Drop superfluous PKG_DESTDIR_SUPPORT, "user-destdir" is default these days.
   2008-06-20 03:09:45 by Joerg Sonnenberger | Files touched by this commit (993) 
Log message:
Add DESTDIR support.
   2007-01-07 10:14:16 by Roland Illig | Files touched by this commit (412) 
Log message:
Mechanically replaced man/* with ${PKGMANDIR}/* in the definition of
INSTALLATION_DIRS, as well as all occurrences of ${PREFIX}/man with
${PREFIX}/${PKGMANDIR}.

Fixes PR 35265, although I did not use the patch provided therein.