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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:35:33 -0800
From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: search and replace tool
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:47:45AM +0100, Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at> wrote:
> Larry Hall schrieb:
> >At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
> >>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
> >>a bunch (3500+) of files.
> >>
> >>That should be an easy one.. :)
> >
> >This isn't really Cywgin-specific.  As a result, it's off-topic for this 
> >list.  
> 
> But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing 
> via perl -i would be cygwin specific.
> Anyone investigated this lately?

That's just a matter of allowing unlinking an open file and creating a
new one with the same name...

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