On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote: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.
huh? what do you mean "in-place"? linux writes new file to new place, it just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin.
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egor.
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