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by colink (481) on 2002.11.27 12:20 (#15062) Homepage Journal

During the discussion, I recalled a little-known feature of -i, described in perlrun : its ability to create backup files in any directory, with the syntax -i/tmp/*.bak.
That was a long time ago. I got an O'Reilly C book and taught myself C in order to provide the patch. You should all consider yourself fortunate that Sarathy rewrote it :) The other part of that TODO item is still open, -i only creates a backup if it did something to the input file.

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