On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 08:25, David T-G wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> I like being able to use -i to set an in-place edit suffix like .bak for
> the original copy of my files. Since I use the old MIT/Athena delete(1)
> program, though, I'd like even more to be able to define a *prefix* for
> the original file so that instead of file.bak I have .#file after an edit
> (and then I can clean up the original 30 days later without any other
> effort on my part, thanks to an expunge(1) looking for delete(1)d files).
> Currently I know that I can 1) manually delete the .bak files or 2) go
> back to the Camel book and manually implement the rename that is what -i
> basically does for me but do it with a prefix. Does anyone have any
> better ways?
>
>
> TIA & HAND
>
> :-D
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<snip href="perldoc perlrun">
If the extension doesn't contain a "*", then it is
appended to the end of the current filename as a suf
fix. If the extension does contain one or more "*"
characters, then each "*" is replaced with the cur
rent filename.
</snip>
<example>
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi.#*
s/this/that/g;
</example>
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