RE: bash/sed script help needed

[Wienand Ian <iwienand@woolworths.com.au>]

>I have ten files in a directory I am trying to convert from *.eps to *.jpg.

>file1.eps
>file2.eps
>file3.eps

>for a in *.eps;do t=`sed 's/*.eps/*.jpg/'`;convert $a $t;done

>But this doesn't rename the file to file1.jpg

sed stands for "stream editor" -- it works on an input strem line by line,
executing functions (in this case the substitute function). 

here's how i'd do what you want to do, and it has the advantage it will
descend through directories because it uses paths.
find ./ -name '*.eps' | sed -e 's/\.eps//' | xargs -t -i/{} convert /{}.eps
/{}.jpg 

-i
ianw@ieee.org
http://www.wienand.org
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