From: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Date: Tue, 09 May 2017 21:04:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fixup! use perl instead of sed
Message-ID: <9353580b-d792-f3c5-a099-74eb49b867b0@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <4cb1d101-3efa-6376-64fd-2b9090d0b0c4@kdbg.org>

On 05/09/2017 01:43 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 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

Thanks - sent a fixup [1] in reply to my PATCH v3 cover letter (but 
forgot to CC you).

[1] <20170509210158.17898-1-jonathantanmy@google.com>