perlquestion
jesuashok
fellow monks,
<p>
<code>
$ ls -l foo*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 metrica metrica 0 Sep 6 08:02 foo
$ perl -pi~ -e '' foo
$ ls -l foo*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 metrica metrica 0 Sep 6 08:02 foo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 metrica metrica 0 Sep 6 08:02 foo~
</code>
I am using perl version 5.
<code>
$ perl -pi~ -e '' foo
</code>
what did the above line do ?
<br>
why it has created a file called 'foo~' ?
<br>
am I making any mistakes there ?
</p>
<div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-395537">
"Keep pouring your ideas"
</div></div>