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| author | Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com> | 2004-07-24 10:00:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com> | 2004-07-24 10:00:27 +0000 |
| commit | 0cb0633f672fc6005f4c2ac2d095ce9b3152b1a4 (patch) | |
| tree | e512991177da99001c47927c9bf44bd2b4a25f76 /pod | |
| parent | a66b22caf4f0cb9d9cd0ec14a50f27dd54688a86 (diff) | |
| download | perl-0cb0633f672fc6005f4c2ac2d095ce9b3152b1a4.tar.gz | |
document that -i messes soft as well hard hard links.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23160
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| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index be366f8afd..e99729e672 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -534,8 +534,8 @@ folks use it for their backup files: $ perl -pi~ -e 's/foo/bar/' file1 file2 file3... Note that because B<-i> renames or deletes the original file before -creating a new file of the same name, UNIX-style hard links will not be -preserved. +creating a new file of the same name, UNIX-style soft and hard links will +not be preserved. Finally, the B<-i> switch does not impede execution when no files are given on the command line. In this case, no backup is made |