Sharan wrote: > > Hello, Hello,
> I lost my files, while using perl -pi -e. > I wanted to replace a world in a set of files, "perl -pi -e > 's/somestring/somethingelse/g' *.pl" > but, it gave error saying permission denied and all the files got deleted. > > If it cant rewrite the files, at least it should not delete. Supply a string to the -i switch and perl will save the original file with that string appended to the file name. For example: perl -pi.bak -s's/somestring/somethingelse/g' textfile.txt Will save the original file as "textfile.txt.bak" and the modified file as "textfile.txt" John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
