Date: 11 Sep 1998 01:55:17 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Co=EFdan?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ed Message-ID: <xzp67evfrq2.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 1998 08:51:19 %2B0930" References: <9698.905291210@time.cdrom.com> <35F7CF17.E0C82BCA@softweyr.com> <19980911085119.L583@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> writes: > So what's wrong with > > for file in `find . \( -name '*.[ch] -o -name Makefile \) -print` > do > sed <file >file.new 's/Good Time Engineering/Mega Baby Bell/g' > if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then > mv file.new > fi > echo $file edited. > done Well, you forgot a few ' and $ here and there, it will barf at the first mv for want of a second argument, and it can be written more concisely (and more readably): for f in `find . \( -name '*.[ch]' -o -name Makefile \)` ; do sed 's/Good Time Engineering/Mega Baby Bell/g' "${f}" >"${f}.new" && mv "${f}.new" "${f}" && echo "edited ${f}" done Apart from that, nothing :) DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - dag-erli@ifi.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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