ActiveState docs suggest you can: perl -pi '.orig' -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA to specify the .orig suffix but That did not work for me. perl -pi.bak -e 's/bar/baz/' fileA does! Thanks John "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Dave K wrote: > > > > perl -pi -e 's/foo/bar/' my_file.txt > > is supposed to do an inplace edit of my_file.txt, looping over each line, > > replacing foo with bar. Instead it merely stomps my_file.txt, effectively > > erasing it. Any body know why? > > Perl for cygwin, WinNt is the environment. > > Yes, this is a known problem with the -i switch on Windows. You have to > include a file extention or it won't work. > > perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/' my_file.txt > > > John > -- > use Perl; > program > fulfillment
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