Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion

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merlyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Randal L. Schwartz) writes:

>>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Kleine-Koenig <zeisberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Uwe> 	#! /bin/sh
> Uwe> 	exec perl -i -p -e 's/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/' "$@";
>
> Ow.  My eyes hurt from that.  How about we rewrite that as a native Perl
> script:
>
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>     $^I = ""; # this is -i
>     while (<>) {
>       s/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/;
>       print;
>     }

That's kinda surprising coming from the resident Perl guru.

I am so used to the command line "-i -p" that I did not even
know what $^I does, and I would have lost without your "# this
is -i" comment.  That alone makes the Uwe's one more readable
for me ;-).

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