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Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:46:03 +0300
From: Egor Duda <deo AT corpit DOT ru>
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To: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna AT efn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: search and replace tool
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Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> 
>>huh? what do you mean "in-place"? linux writes new file to new place, it 
>>just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin.
>>
>>deo AT paltus:~$ echo aaa >xxx
>>deo AT paltus:~$ ls -i xxx
>> 408096 xxx
>>deo AT paltus:~$ perl -i -pe 's/aaa/bbbb/' xxx
>>deo AT paltus:~$ ls -i xxx
>> 408074 xxx
>>deo AT paltus:~$ cat xxx
>>bbbb
> 
> 
> That doesn't ever create a backup file or a temporary file.  It opens
> xxx for read, unlinks it, opens xxx for writing, then reads from the
> original handle and writes to the second handle.  This is AFAIUI
> impossible on windows, but possible on things like unix and VMS (where
> the unlink is skipped because of the automatic versioning).

Well, it creates new file, while old one is still present on disk. Space 
occupied by original file is freed only after handle is closed. What is 
deleted immediatly on linux is just directory entry, not the file itself.

Depending on the goal you wish to achive, cygwin may have drawbacks 
compared to linux or they may be equal.

If you want to search-and-replace in 700Mb file on 1Gb disk then you 
won't be able to do so either on linux or on cygwin.
If you wish to keep your real .bak file from being overwritten by 
search-and-replace script, then linux is slightly more convenient here, 
but on cygwin it's almost as easy to work around.

egor.

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