on Tue, 03 Sep 2002 13:11:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Edward
Gray II) wrote:
> This is the easiest way, in my opinion. It'll work on files
> passes as command line arguments. Beware the replacing though,
> files will be modified in place and data may be lost!
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -pi
The loss of data can easily be prevented by using the following shebang
instead:
#!/usr/bin/perl -pi.orig
which leaves a backup copy of your original data. See
perldoc perlrun
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