"Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:11:49AM -0500, Michael Goldshteyn wrote: > >> "Ricky Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > perl -pi -e 's/original text/new text/g' * >> >> Error: Can't do inplace edit without backup. > > You need either perl -pi.bak -e ... or an OS upgrade. Windows, > unfortunately, can't manage this.
This isn't a Windows problem, this is a Perl on Windows problem that is solely in the Perl interpreter or its libraries. Mike -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
