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At 12:35 PM 4/27/02 +0530, sharan wrote: >Hello, > >I lost my files, while using perl -pi -e. >I wanted to replace a world in a set of files, "perl -pi -e >'s/somestring/somethingelse/g' *.pl" >but, it gave error saying permission denied and all the files got deleted. > >If it cant rewrite the files, at least it should not delete. Can you show me how to reproduce this behavior? Here's what happened when I tried, first with no write permission, then with no read permission either: $ cat foo cat: foo: No such file or directory $ echo "foo" > foo $ chmod 400 foo $ cat foo foo $ perl -pi -e 's/o/e/' foo $ cat foo feo $ chmod 000 foo $ cat foo cat: foo: Permission denied $ perl -pi -e 's/o/e/' foo Can't open foo: Permission denied. $ cat foo cat: foo: Permission denied $ chmod 400 foo $ cat foo feo As you can see, the file was not deleted. This was on Linux, what OS were you on? -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.comThread Previous | Thread Next