Re: One-liner: -i without .bak?

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I think you will find that this is something to do with the fact that you can't have anonymous filehandles on windows - i.e. the file can't be unlinked when it is open. I can't remember where this is documented though.

/J\

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Re^2: One-liner: -i without .bak? by Fletch (Bishop) on Jul 21, 2005 at 18:47 UTC
Aaah, I stand corrected. Looking through `perl.c` looks that on Cygwin it will automagically use `.bak`. The OP didn't specify platform but that's a plausible explanation. -- We're looking for people in ATL	[reply]

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