choroba,
Thank you for your reply.
But your case actually proved my point of view:
your file "1" originally contains 5 'q' ('qqqqq'),after your program, it only left 4 'q' ('wqqqq').
this shows that the first 'q' was clobbered.
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Filesystems generally don't support an insert feature. "+<" gives you read/write access. It isn't a "prepend" or "insert" feature. Any changes made will write over what was there before, beginning at the current position within the file.
If you want to prepend something to a file, the standard idiom is to rename the input file, create a new file by the original name of the input file, start copying the old (newly renamed) input file over to the new file, while adding your "insert" text at the appropriate point, and follow that insertion with a copy of the remainder of the source file. Then unlink the original source file. That's essentially what the -i Perl command line switch does.
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Dave:
"Filesystems generally don't support an insert feature. "+<" gives you read/write access. It doesn't create a "prepend" or "insert" feature. Any changes made will write over what was there before, beginning at the current position within the file." This is exactly I was looking for.
I have checked camel book, but didn't find a detailed explanation for this behavior.
Thank you.
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Try the same with the ">" mode to see what clobbering means.
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