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From: schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Novice Question: How is -e supposed to work?
Message-ID: <11451@ogicse.ogi.edu>
Date: 17 Aug 90 03:41:57 GMT
References: <1990Aug16.070010.26529@morrow.stanford.edu> <11415@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1990Aug16.172303.12982@morrow.stanford.edu>
Organization: Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGC), Beaverton, OR
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In article <1990Aug16.172303.12982@morrow.stanford.edu> whenry@lindy.stanford.edu (homo obsolescensis) writes:
} In article <> schaefer@ogicse.ogi.edu (Barton E. Schaefer) writes:
} >	perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/;' < bas
} 
} This does indeed work as far as -e is concerned (s/foo/bar is done)
} but not as far as -i (or, more likely I dont understand -i).  shouldnt
} your fragment result in bas being overwritten with the changed text?

No, because I also made a typo.  Get rid of that < character.

If it doesn't work when you use

	perl -pi.bak -e 's/foo/bar/;' bas

then something funny is going on.
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Bart Schaefer						schaefer@cse.ogi.edu