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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl -i bug
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Date: 17 Dec 90 05:51:00 GMT
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Speaking of 'perl -i' bugs...  I just did this

    % mkdir testdir
    % perl -i -p -e 's/x/x/' testdir
    Can't do inplace edit.

Which is nice, although the file's name and why would be nice.

But this is really what I would consider wrong:

    % perl -i.bak -p -e 's/x/x/' testdir
    % ls -Fd testdir*
    testdir*      tdestir.bak/

Don't you think?

--tom
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Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
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