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From: jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Bug in perl -pi (REPOST)
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Date: 29 Jan 91 02:12:50 GMT
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Reply-To: jsweedle@mipos2.intel.com (Jonathan Sweedler)
Organization: Intel Corp.
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I used "perl -pi" to edit a file in place.  I had write permission for
the file that I was working on but I did not have write permission for
the directory in which it sat.  The end result was that perl erased the
file (changed it to length of 0) without giving any warning or error
messages.
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|Jonathan Sweedler          Microprocessor Design                  Intel Corp.|
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