I'm working through the examples in Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's book 'Mastering
Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.'. I'm trying to work the example at the top of
p. 53, but I'm attempting it in a command prompt window (I'm using Windows
2000 pro). I enter:
perl -p -i -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
I get this error message:
"Can't do inplace edit without backup."
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Al 4 17543
In article <2E************ ******@nwrdny01 .gnilink.net>,
news.verizon.ne t <ac******@veriz on.net> wrote: I'm working through the examples in Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.'. I'm trying to work the example at the top of p. 53, but I'm attempting it in a command prompt window (I'm using Windows 2000 pro). I enter: perl -p -i -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
I get this error message: "Can't do inplace edit without backup."
Any ideas?
Thanks, Al
Your perl is not letting you overwrite the substitute.txt file. While I
am not sure why this is so, you should be able to get around this by
specifying an extension after the -i switch. Perl will then save the
original file with this extension and write the modified file to the
original file name (untested):
perl -p -i '.bak' -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
FYI: the comp.lang.perl news group is obsolete. Try using
comp.lang.perl. misc in the future.
Jim,
TFYR. It ran without error this time and produced the backup file.
However, when I opened the substitute.txt file, it was unchanged. I
expected to see all occurrences of 'sysread' to be changed to 'read'. I'll
work on it some more. Thanks.
(And I'll be using the other newsgroup you mentioned).
Al
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news:2909200313 11419637%jg**** *@mail.arc.nasa .gov... In article <2E************ ******@nwrdny01 .gnilink.net>, news.verizon.ne t <ac******@veriz on.net> wrote:
I'm working through the examples in Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's book
'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.'. I'm trying to work the example at the
top of p. 53, but I'm attempting it in a command prompt window (I'm using
Windows 2000 pro). I enter: perl -p -i -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
I get this error message: "Can't do inplace edit without backup."
Any ideas?
Thanks, Al
Your perl is not letting you overwrite the substitute.txt file. While I am not sure why this is so, you should be able to get around this by specifying an extension after the -i switch. Perl will then save the original file with this extension and write the modified file to the original file name (untested):
perl -p -i '.bak' -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
FYI: the comp.lang.perl news group is obsolete. Try using comp.lang.perl. misc in the future.
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news:2E******** **********@nwrd ny01.gnilink.ne t: I'm working through the examples in Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.'. I'm trying to work the example at the top of p. 53, but I'm attempting it in a command prompt window (I'm using Windows 2000 pro). I enter: perl -p -i -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
I get this error message: "Can't do inplace edit without backup."
I have seen this under Windows, since the Windows OS filesystem does not
have Unix's flexibility when it comes to editing a file in-place.
You'll have to specify a backup file extension with the -i option.
For your future reference, comp.lang.perl is a defunct newsgroup. General
Perl questions should be posted to comp.lang.perl. misc; you'll get a better
response there.
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In article <2E************ ******@nwrdny01 .gnilink.net>,
news.verizon.ne t <ac******@veriz on.net> wrote: I'm working through the examples in Jeffrey E. F. Friedl's book 'Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed.'. I'm trying to work the example at the top of p. 53, but I'm attempting it in a command prompt window (I'm using Windows 2000 pro). I enter: perl -p -i -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
I get this error message: "Can't do inplace edit without backup."
Any ideas?
Thanks, Al
You need to specify a file extension after the -i option so that perl
has someplace to put the original file:
perl -p -i '.bak' -e 's/sysread/read/g' substitute.txt
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