Steve Harper wrote: > Can someone please tell me why the following doesn't work? Observe: > > In Windows 2000 CMD.exe, with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 Build 631 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > D:\>copy con testtextfile.txt > This is this, that is that > Thats all folks! > ^Z > 1 file(s) copied. > > D:\>perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt > > D:\>md5sum test* > ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt > ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak
I get: 74d5c5e10b51b882fa5438a4f99cc111 *testtextfile.txt ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak but then I'm using anative tcsh for my shell. :) > D:\>rm *.bak > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Now, lets try that in Cygwin w/ it's perl v5.6.1... > > Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d > $ perl -pi.bak -e 's/this/that/g' testtextfile.txt > > Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d > $ md5sum test* > 74d5c5e10b51b882fa5438a4f99cc111 *testtextfile.txt > ca08d1da587bff5a25bb33f22fa62df7 *testtextfile.txt.bak > > Administrator@PSIONIC /cygdrive/d > $ -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert ICQ=14439852 (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (Free site for Perl) -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
