Re: sed, bash script
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj wrote:
> 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
Yes, first (at least my) sed doesnt know about option "-i", and second it
displays the result on stdout, which is not what the op wants.
Gruß
lal
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