Re: Multiple files

[Dave Carrigan <dave@rudedog.org>]

Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org> writes:

> How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities?  For
> example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want
> to save them in the same directory with a different extension.  The
> command
> 
> cp *.pl *.bak

for f in *.pl; do cp $f ${f%.pl}.bak; done
for f in *.pl; do cp $f `basename $f .pl`.bak; done

> sed s/^M// *.pl > *.unix

for f in *.pl; do sed s/^m// $f > ${f%.pl}.unix; done
for f in *.pl; do sed s/^m// $f > `basename $f .pl`.unix; done
perl -pi.bak -e 's/^M//' *.pl

The last one doesn't do exactly what you suggest; it edits the files in
place, but leaves the originals in another file with a .bak extension.

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