Re: Inplace editing, one liner, without a backup file?

This came up the other week. It's basically a limitation of Windows (SURPRISE!) that Perl has to make a named backup file. See One-liner: -i without .bak?.

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Re^2: Inplace editing, one liner, without a backup file? by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Aug 09, 2005 at 12:46 UTC
Thanks fletch. From reading the post you linked to, I also conclude that in place edit on multiple files with the "perl pie trick" works better from the cygwin command line than from the dos command line, where I get `C:\thomasdata\thomasprojects\fixHtml\t\structural\beginning_includes>p +erl -p -i -e "s/this/that/" . Can't open .: Invalid argument.` [download] Well, one more reason to install cygwin I suppose, something I've been meaning to toy with for awhile. But even with cygwin, you automagically get .bak no matter what, if I understood that thread correctly.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Inplace editing, one liner, without a backup file? by holli (Abbot) on Aug 09, 2005 at 14:52 UTC
workaround: `for %f in (.) do perl -pi.bak -e "s/this/that/" %f & del %f.bak` [download] holli, /regexed monk/	[reply] [d/l]