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Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:34:51 +0100
From: Volker Quetschke <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>
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Subject: Perl with -i option removes files
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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 AT unics]~:{349}:$ uname -a
SunOS unics 5.8 Generic_108528-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
[q AT unics]~:{351}:$ perl -v
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris

where it doesn't remove the file.

Bye
    Volker

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