perl -i is very dangerous !

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Marc schrieb:

> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# cat test.txt
> this is
> a test
> for cygwin
> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# perl -i -ne 's/this/works/' test.txt
> Can't do inplace edit on test.txt: Permission denied.
> mc@MILLENIUM:~/test/perldestroy# ls


> any idea ?

It is gone.

Use perl -i.bak instead.

Gerrit
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