> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Chantreux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: perl -i is very dangerous !
>
>
> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# cat test.txt
> this is
> a test
> for cygwin
> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# perl -i -ne 's/this/works/' test.txt
> Can't do inplace edit on test.txt: Permission denied.
> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# ls
I posted a (backward!) patch for this behavior on Aug 9, 2001
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2001-08/msg00491.html
I also sent it to the perl maintainers, although I may not
sent it to the cygwin perl maintainer. Apparently it never
made it into the released package.
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