From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-06-19T09:43:45+09:00
Subject: Re: in-place editing

Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> writes:

> I didn't find anything in the documentation to suggest that it only
> works on ARGF, so it would have taken me a very long time to figure
> that out.

Ian:


It's under 'Command-Line Options' on page 138 of the Pickaxe:

  Edits ARGV files in place. For each file named in ARGV, anything you
  write to standard output will be saved back as the contents of that
  file. A backup copy of the file will be made if extension is
  supplied.

Cheers


Dave