On Wednesday 11 January 2006 15:11, Rajarshi Das wrote:
> Hi,
> The following one-liner replaces 'hola' with 'warnings' in-place in the
> script a.t.
>
> ./perl -e 's/hola/warnings/gi' -p -i.bak a.t
>
> However, it also creates a backup file a.t.bak with the original text.
>
> Is it possible that i
On 1/11/06, Rajarshi Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible that if an inplace edit is attempted without creating a
> backup file, perl cannot delete the original file to replace with the
> modified file and, the original file will be left unmodified ?
I'm not sure about what you're aski
