Re: sed, bash script

[csj <csj@zapo.net>]

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