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Stepan Kasal <skasal(a)redhat.com> changed:
What |Removed |Added
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Status|ASSIGNED |CLOSED
CC| |skasal(a)redhat.com
Resolution| |NOTABUG
--- Comment #4 from Stepan Kasal <skasal(a)redhat.com> 2008-11-28 08:35:07 EDT ---
With -i.bkp perl first moves the file to *.bkp and then creates a new file with
the same name as the original file.
When option -i is given without any argument, the original file is deleted.
But again a new file is created against the original one.
The above is documented in "man perlrun". The fact that owner and acl flags
are not preserved is a logical consequence of theis implementation.
This is also consistent with the implementation of "sed -i".
To get the results you need, there are several ways:
- backup the acls of the files and restore them after the "perl -i" run,
- copy the file before the running perl (without the -i), or
- run perl (w/out -i) first and then copy the result to the original file
To sum up, the described behavior is not a bug and is probably not going to
change.
I'm sorry that you had to wait years for this obvious answer.
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