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perl and problem with in-place edits (just deletes files) on Cygwin 1.3.10 on Win98
- From: "Max" <maxng at webwizarddesign dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 22:27:29 -0400
- Subject: perl and problem with in-place edits (just deletes files) on Cygwin 1.3.10 on Win98
- Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin
- Reply-to: "Max" <maxng at webwizarddesign dot com>
Hi,
Ran this command the other day in a directory with C files
perl -p -i -e 's/string1/string2/g' *c
Got a long list of
Can't do inplace edit on name.c: File exists.
At the end of it, all the .c files were deleted .. I assume this is a
symlink issue .. that perl is calling
some system file linking function that isn't implemented properly or
implemented at all?
Output from perl -v:
This is perl, v5.6.1 built for cygwin-multi
I know that with the Win32 port it will not allow you to do an inplace edit
without specifying a backup
extension after -i, e.g.
perl -p -i.bak -e 's/string1/string2/g' glob
I assumed that since the Cygwin perl didn't give this warning it would do
the right thing ;) ... I am very thankful for
shareware undelete software now!
Anybody know what isn't in place for this to work correctly?
Max
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