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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:52:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: search and replace tool
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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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