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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:32:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: search and replace tool
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:

> Larry Hall schrieb:
> > At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
> >>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
> >>a bunch (3500+) of files.
> >>
> >>That should be an easy one.. :)
> >
> > This isn't really Cywgin-specific.  As a result, it's off-topic for this
> > list.
>
> 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).
	Igor

$ cygcheck -cd perl
Cygwin Package Information
Package              Version
perl                 5.8.2-1
$ ls
$ cat <<EOF > sometext
> blah
> blah and more blah
> still blah
> ok, done with blah
> EOF
$ ls
sometext
$ cat sometext
blah
blah and more blah
still blah
ok, done with blah
$ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext
$ ls
sometext  sometext.bak
$ cat sometext
stuff
stuff and more stuff
still stuff
ok, done with stuff
$

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