Re: •Re: Large scale search and replace with perl -i

One small caveat with this neat technique (that I just got bitten by) is that if $^I is set to a wild card (eg. *.bak or orig_*) so that the filename of the backup is edited rather than simply appended, the rename will fail.

I'll hazard a guess as to your respose to this as

but I thought it was worth a mention here :)

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by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 20, 2003 at 15:37 UTC

Unless you're talking about some local hack to your Perl to make it interpret $^I differently.

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update

perlrun

perlvar

My apologies. Wow, I'll have to write a column about it now to remember it. {grin} And I don't recall it in the perldelta from 5.5 to 5.6, or perhaps I considered it un-noteworthy. Yeah, just checked, not in perldelta. No wonder I hadn't noticed it.

update 2 On further research, 5.4 didn't have the feature, but 5.5 did. And yet it wasn't in 5.5's perldelta. That's why I missed it. I don't always diff the entire manpage set. {sigh} I rely on perldelta.

update 3 See "Put your inplace-edit backup files into a subdir".

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