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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'Marc Chantreux'" <chantreux DOT marc AT wanadoo DOT fr>,
   "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'"
	 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: perl -i is very dangerous !
Date: Fri, 3 May 2002 13:44:47 -0400 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Chantreux [mailto:chantreux DOT marc AT wanadoo DOT fr]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:10 PM
> To: cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: perl -i is very dangerous !
> 
> 
> mc AT MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# cat test.txt
> this is
> a test
> for cygwin
> mc AT MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# perl -i -ne 's/this/works/' test.txt
> Can't do inplace edit on test.txt: Permission denied.
> mc AT MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# ls

 I posted a (backward!) patch for this behavior on Aug 9, 2001
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00491.html

 I also sent it to the perl maintainers, although I may not
sent it to the cygwin perl maintainer. Apparently it never
made it into the released package.

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