On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> >
> > > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing
> > > via perl -i would be cygwin specific.
> > > Anyone investigated this lately?
> >
> > What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below).
> > ...
> > $ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext
> > $ ls
> > sometext sometext.bak
>
> It didn't do the editing "inline", it created a new file and renamed the
> old one ".bak". In other words, on Cygwin "-i" is really "-i.bak". If
> you try the above sequence on linux you don't get a .bak file and the
> changes are truly done in-place. I assume this relates to differences
> in filesystem semantics.
>
> Brian
I stand corrected. Thanks for the explanation.
Igor
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