From: Ian Macdonald <ian@...>
Date: 2002-06-19T09:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: in-place editing

On Wed 19 Jun 2002 at 09:43:45 +0900, Dave Thomas wrote:

> 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.

Ah, I see. I didn't realise that the $-i variable worked the same way.

I really should have remembered this from Perl, since that also
requires you to set @ARGV to the list of files to be edited.

Thanks for the pointer.

Ian
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