On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 08:11:49AM -0500, Michael Goldshteyn wrote: > "Ricky Zhou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > perl -pi -e 's/original text/new text/g' * > > Error: Can't do inplace edit without backup.
You need either perl -pi.bak -e ... or an OS upgrade. Windows, unfortunately, can't manage this. -- Paul Johnson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pjcj.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
