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in reply to Add a newline to the end of a file

Don't know what kind of hacked version of perl you got, but you need to give -i something.


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Re: Re: Add a newline to the end of a file
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Nov 28, 2002 at 13:46 UTC

    From perlrun:
    -i[extension] ... If no extension is supplied, no backup is made and the current file is overwritten.

    However, on Dos and some other OSes the extension is mandatory. This is due to the fact that these OSes cannot unlink an open file.

    --
    John.

Re: Re: Add a newline to the end of a file
by simonflk (Pilgrim) on Nov 28, 2002 at 13:39 UTC

    I imagine it's a regular perl, but the platform is something other than Windows.

    See perlrun and the latest p5p digest

    -- simonflk