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Re: update-copyright self-tests bug
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: update-copyright self-tests bug |
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Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:48:55 +0100 |
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Jim Meyering wrote:
> It looks like somehow perl is being run with -pi.bak.
Yes, apparently this is the cause. The .bak suffix appears to be the default.
I have not specified it through environment variables.
$ ls -l foo3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 bruno Kein 73 Nov 25 21:46 foo3.c
$ perl -pi -e s/x/x/ foo3.c
$ ls -l foo3*
-rw-r--r-- 1 bruno Kein 73 Nov 25 21:46 foo3.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 bruno Kein 73 Nov 25 21:46 foo3.c.bak
Seen on Cygwin 1.5.25 and 1.7.9.
Bruno
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