Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
huh? what do you mean "in-place"? linux writes new file to new place, it
just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo aaa >xxx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -i xxx
408096 xxx
[EMAIL
Egor Duda wrote:
> huh? what do you mean "in-place"? linux writes new file to new place, it
> just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin.
Okay, it's not technically in-place. But perl expects to be able to do
the following if you specify "-i":
x = open("file");
unlink("file");
y = open("f
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:02:03AM +0300, Egor Duda wrote:
> huh? what do you mean "in-place"? linux writes new file to new place, it
> just deletes .bak file afterwards, unlike cygwin.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo aaa >xxx
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -i xxx
> 408096 xxx
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ pe
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below).
...
$ perl -i -pe 's/blah/stuff/g' sometext
$ ls
sometext sometext.bak
It didn't do the editing "inline", it created a new file and renamed the
old one ".bak". In other words, on Cygw
At 06:47 PM 2/19/2004, Reini Urban you wrote:
>Larry Hall schrieb:
>>At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
>>>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
>>>a bunch (3500+) of files.
>>>
>>>That should be an easy one.. :)
>>This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> >
> > > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing
> > > via perl -i would be cygwin specific.
> > > Anyone investigated this lately?
> >
> > What on Eart
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > But fixing perl's long-standing inability to do direct inline editing
> > via perl -i would be cygwin specific.
> > Anyone investigated this lately?
>
> What on Earth are you talking about? What inability? WFM (see below).
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 12:47:45AM +0100, Reini Urban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Larry Hall schrieb:
> >At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
> >>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
> >>a bunch (3500+) of files.
> >>
> >>That should be an easy one.. :)
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Reini Urban wrote:
> Larry Hall schrieb:
> > At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
> >>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
> >>a bunch (3500+) of files.
> >>
> >>That should be an easy one.. :)
> >
> > This isn't really Cywgin-speci
Larry Hall schrieb:
At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
a bunch (3500+) of files.
That should be an easy one.. :)
This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this
list.
But fixing perl's lo
Rafael Kitover wrote:
>
> Not really cygwin specific, you can do something like:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/' `find /where -name '*.txt'`
>
> note those are backticks surrounding the find.
>
> Use -pi.bak to make backup files in case you screw up. You will of course need
> to know how
At 04:46 PM 2/18/2004, Igor Pechtchanski you wrote:
>On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
>> >Hello cygwin-list,
>> >
>> >I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
>> >a bunch (3500+) of files.
>> >
>> >That should
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:13:38PM -0800, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> Not really cygwin specific, you can do something like:
>
> perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/' `find /where -name '*.txt'`
>
> note those are backticks surrounding the find.
>
> Use -pi.bak to make backup files in case you screw up
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
> >Hello cygwin-list,
> >
> >I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
> >a bunch (3500+) of files.
> >
> >That should be an easy one.. :)
>
> This isn't really Cywgin-specific. A
At 02:59 PM 2/18/2004, dAniel hAhler you wrote:
>Hello cygwin-list,
>
>I'm looking for a search and replace tool to replace a text portion in
>a bunch (3500+) of files.
>
>That should be an easy one.. :)
>
>
This isn't really Cywgin-specific. As a result, it's off-topic for this
list. I will,
Not really cygwin specific, you can do something like:
perl -pi -e 's/old text/new text/' `find /where -name '*.txt'`
note those are backticks surrounding the find.
Use -pi.bak to make backup files in case you screw up. You will of course need
to know how to use regular expressions (see man perl
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