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