Re^2: Best way to write in Perl

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I think you forgot to create a backup of the file. I tried:

perl -pi -e 's/MONK/SAINT/ig abc.txt
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and get:

Can't do inplace edit without backup.
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If you change that to:

perl -pib -e 's/MONK/SAINT/ig' abc.txt
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Then it works ;)

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Re^3: Best way to write in Perl by Prof Vince (Friar) on Sep 04, 2007 at 11:54 UTC
Actually, just specifying -i will work on most platforms. Cf perldiag : `Can’t do inplace edit without backup (F) You’re on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if + you try reading from a deleted (but still opened) file. You have t +o say "-i.bak", or some such.` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: Best way to write in Perl
by Prof Vince (Friar) on Sep 04, 2007 at 11:54 UTC

perldiag

       Can’t do inplace edit without backup
           (F) You’re on a system such as MS-DOS that gets confused if
+ you try
           reading from a deleted (but still opened) file.  You have t
+o say
           "-i.bak", or some such.
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