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| author | Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org> | 2018-05-23 16:37:37 +0300 |
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| committer | Sawyer X <xsawyerx@cpan.org> | 2018-05-23 16:44:05 +0300 |
| commit | 8af2daae274f996a274cbe099ecc4817c90ea05e (patch) | |
| tree | fba69ce2bd48bbc326349f1cfa730c7021a21128 | |
| parent | ba1bd806be7652f5c7c97b69cfcbcfab76891ce1 (diff) | |
| download | perl-8af2daae274f996a274cbe099ecc4817c90ea05e.tar.gz | |
perldelta: Clarify we refer to perl -i in in-place editing
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 2a7cec8c4e..e517105813 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ off) a warning in the C<experimental::script_run> category. See L<perlre/Script Runs>. -=head2 In-place editing is now safer +=head2 In-place editing with C<perl -i> is now safer -Previously in-place editing would delete or rename the input file -as soon as you started working on a new file. +Previously in-place editing (C<perl -i>) would delete or rename the +input file as soon as you started working on a new file. Without backups this would result in loss of data if there was an error, such as a full disk, when writing to the output file. |