I've added a print to the program, as per your suggestion. Well, it's still clobbering the output. However, now instead the output files, instead of being completely blank, have the shebang line and the copyright line, then the rest is completly obliterated. None of the text that was previously there, aside from the shebang line, are there.

Right now, the code looks like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

$^I = ".old";

while (<>) {
   if (/^#!/) {
      $_ .= " ## Copyright (C) 2008 me\n";
      print;
   }
}

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I have to say, that a lot of this discussion is completely over my head. To anyone kind enough to repond, please try to bear in mind that I am working on chapter 9 in the Llama book. Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: clobbering output by bluethundr
in thread clobbering output by bluethundr

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