I still think this is related to the session snapshot and periodic backup functionality.
A few questions
I have a number of bash and perl scripts that depend on the size of a file after an editing session
What means editing session? You edited the file or the bash/perl scripts?
What I’ve seen from npp (Notepad++), is that if you just close the editor, it will write the file, but it doesn’t shrink the size of the file to the new smaller size.
As said, this sounds like snapshot and periodic backup functionality is ative, because otherwise
npp would ask you whether to save any of the modified files. Is this the case? Does npp
ask you to save the files if you close the editor?
It is updating the file, in that the content is gone on next edit, or run (if a script), but the file size does not change!
How do you check that the file size didn’t change? Did you try to open that file with a different
editor, preferable a hex editor? Is it still empty?
Cheers
Claudia