At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > Hi, I would like to run all of the files in some directories > > through sed, in order to edit the files. I can do it for > > individual files by typing: cat filename|sed command>filename > > But that requires me to run that command for each file. I > > was wondering if anyone could 1) give me a reference to a > > simple bash tutorial that will explain how to set up a script > > to do things like this, > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html > > > and 2) tell me how to do it. > > for f in *; do tmp=`tempfile`; cat $f | sed command > $tmp ; mv $tmp $f; done
Is there anything intrinsically wrong with: find directory -name "*.foo" | xargs sed -i -f sed_script -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
