Re: bash script question

[Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 17:41, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On 05 May 2003 17:19:04 +0100
> Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 16:29, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> > > Hallo,
> > > 
> > > I have a directory with files, and in every file I want to replace:
> > > templates/images
> > > with
> > > http://users.pandora.be/webworm/images
> > > 
> > > How can I do this in an easy way?
> > 
> > cd directory
> > for f in `find . -type f`
> > do
> >    sed -e 's|templates/images|http://users.pandora.be/webworm/images|g' $f
> >    >$$
> >    cat $$ >$f    # do it this way to preserve existing ownership and perms
> > done
> > rm $$
> 
> Can the "for" line be replaced with
> 
> for f in *

Yes

> What would be the difference, except being simpler and not using find? :)

If there are any directories, it will barf on them.  With find, it will
descend into them instead.

If you know there are none, "for f in *" is fine.

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