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From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf DOT Habacker AT freenet DOT de>
To: "Volker Quetschke" <quetschke AT scytek DOT de>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Perl with -i option removes files
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:04:56 +0100
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Sorry my finger were pressing the send to key before this mail was ready. 

> > 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
This is a known issue with this perl release, which was fixed in perl 5.8.x. 

A workaround is to use a speficic backup extension like perl -pi.bak ... 

Regards 

Ralf 




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