Subject: Re: perl -i is very dangerous !
From: [email-masked] (Peter J. Acklam)
To: [email-masked]
Date: 06 May 2002 22:34:05 +0200

"Gerrit P. Haase" <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Marc schrieb:
> 
> > mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# cat test.txt
> > this is
> > a test
> > for cygwin
> > mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# perl -i -ne 's/this/works/' test.txt
> > Can't do inplace edit on test.txt: Permission denied.
> > mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# ls
> > any idea ?
> 
> It is gone.
> 
> Use perl -i.bak instead.

Not to mention to use -p and *not* -n.  The -n option will not
write back to the file, so it will end up having size zero.

Peter

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