Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E2E65BB.5060401@scytek.de> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:34:51 +0100 From: Volker Quetschke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de-de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Perl with -i option removes files X-Enigmail-Version: 0.63.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig806DAF3957BC81C9DCD57F2B" Note-from-DJ: This may be spam --------------enig806DAF3957BC81C9DCD57F2B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi! Following szenario: $ echo abc > testfile $ perl -p -i -e 's/b/x/g' testfile Can't do inplace edit on testfile: Permission denied. $ ls -l testfile ls: testfile: No such file or directory If I use: $ perl -p -i".bak" -e 's/l/x/g' testfile I get an unchanged testfile.bak plus a changed testfile. Is this a bug or feature? $ cygcheck -c cygwin perl Cygwin Package Information Package Version cygwin 1.3.17-1 perl 5.6.1-2 on Windows 2000 Professional Ver 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3. I also tested this sequence on: [q@unics]~:{349}:$ uname -a SunOS unics 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise [q@unics]~:{351}:$ perl -v This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris where it doesn't remove the file. Bye Volker -- PGP/GPG key (ID: 0x9F8A785D) available from wwwkeys.de.pgp.net key-fingerprint 550D F17E B082 A3E9 F913 9E53 3D35 C9BA 9F8A 785D --------------enig806DAF3957BC81C9DCD57F2B Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Netscape - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+LmW+PTXJup+KeF0RApqxAJ9uTanoo4jfvK3Zanzf/BzzZmFOPgCghZPf sIQ1YDIG1lz+5mjYkS9ka5M= =xY+7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig806DAF3957BC81C9DCD57F2B--