Re: [PATCH] fixup! use perl instead of sed

Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@xxxxxxxxxx> · Tue, 9 May 2017 14:04:16 -0700

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@xxxxxxxxxx>