On 05/09/2017 01:43 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
Am 09.05.2017 um 19:00 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
Finally, you can just use -i like you did with sed, no need for the
tempfile:
Nope. Some implementations of perl attempt to remove the file that it
has just opened. That doesn't work on Windows. You have to supply a
backup file name as in `perl -i.bak ...` :-(
$ echo hibar >push
$ perl -pi -e 's/([^ ])bar/$1baz/' push
$ cat push
hibaz
-- Hannes
Thanks - sent a fixup [1] in reply to my PATCH v3 cover letter (but
forgot to CC you).
[1] <20170509210158.17898-1-jonathanta...@google.com>
