From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 08:33:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [SCRIPT] chomp: trim trailing whitespace
Message-ID: <8694.1148805194@ocs3.ocs.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0605271441080.4857@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

Jan Engelhardt (on Sat, 27 May 2006 14:42:02 +0200 (MEST)) wrote:
>And the CL form is
>  perl -i -pe '...'
>Somehow, you can't group it to -ipe, but who cares.

-i takes an optional extension which is used to optionally create
backup files.  As such, -i must be followed by space if you want no
extension (and no backup).