in reply to In-place file manipulation

Why not do something like this? 
$ your_script < your_input > your_output
$ mv your_output your_input

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Re: Re: In-place file manipulation
by ibanix (Hermit) on Apr 30, 2003 at 17:04 UTC
    Because I'm on Win2k :-{

    Well, the real reason is that this isn't happening on the command line. But thanks anyway.

    Cheers,
    ibanix

    $ echo '$0 & $0 &' > foo; chmod a+x foo; foo;
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      Ehm ... the only changes you'd have to make so that this does work under Win2k is to use move /Y<code> instead of <code>mv and to put perl before the script.pl.

      And you might even do it like this: 

      perl script.pl < source.txt > result.txt && move /Y result.txt source.
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      Where the && means "execute the second command only if the first one did not return an error"

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      Can you get away with installing cygwin?
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