Re^2: String substitution

Is there a way to use: perl -pi.bak -e 's/apple/orange/gi' c:\data w/o the '-pi.bak' part; without making a backup of the file

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Re^3: String substitution by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 09, 2006 at 20:36 UTC
The `p` and the `i` are seperate options. You definitely want to keep the `p`, and you definitely want to keep the `i` ("inplace"), but if you don't specify an extention, the backup file isn't created. This is all documented in perlrun. `perl -pi -e 's/apple/orange/gi'` [download] Caveat: `i` without an extention does not work in Windows.	[reply] [d/l] [select]