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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:40:03 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: search and replace tool
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing
> > via perl -i would be cygwin specific.
> > Anyone investigated this lately?
> 
> What on Earth are you talking about?  What inability?  WFM (see below).
> ...
> $ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext
> $ ls
> sometext  sometext.bak

It didn't do the editing "inline", it created a new file and renamed the
old one ".bak".  In other words, on Cygwin "-i" is really "-i.bak".  If
you try the above sequence on linux you don't get a .bak file and the
changes are truly done in-place.  I assume this relates to differences
in filesystem semantics.

Brian

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