I'm running perl on cygwin and trying to do the following one liner:
perl -pi -e 'BEGIN{$pwd=`pwd`;} s/^HOME=.*/HOME=$pwd/;' makeinclude
which will replace the line
HOME=/home/whoever
with
HOME=(whever I happen to be at the moment)
in my makinclude file
However, cygwin apparently does not like that and will just delete
makinclude. cygwin apparently only works when you supply a suffix to i
perl -pi.bak -e ...
But I don't want a backup made of the file, so I have to unlink it
perl -pi.bak -e 'BEGIN{$file=$ARGV[0]; $pwd=`pwd`;} s/^HOME=.*/$pwd/;
END{unlink($file . ".bak");}'
Now this is just UGLY! Is there an easier way (even not in perl) to get
what I want.
Thanks!
Tanton
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