From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 20:43:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixup! use perl instead of sed
Message-ID: <4cb1d101-3efa-6376-64fd-2b9090d0b0c4@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <CACBZZX5DF6sTTYSUpYnvas925N-XsoUGrM-bYbAN_67g8-w2GQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 09.05.2017 um 19:00 schrieb Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason:
> Finally, you can just use -i like you did with sed, no need for the tempfile:

Nope. Some implementations of perl attempt to remove the file that it 
has just opened. That doesn't work on Windows. You have to supply a 
backup file name as in `perl -i.bak ...` :-(

> 
>      $ echo hibar >push
>      $ perl -pi -e 's/([^ ])bar/$1baz/' push
>      $ cat push
>      hibaz

-- Hannes