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Re: perl's command line snippet which I read from a perl article ( perl tutrous )by merlyn (Sage) |
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I have been known to use perl -pi-DIST -e0 file1 file2 file3....
as a "poor man's change control", to save the "distribution" versions of a Makefile or config file as "Makefile-DIST" and so on. The nice thing about the in-place "non-edit" is that permissions and ownership are retained automatically.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
In Section
Seekers of Perl Wisdom
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