[KLUG Members] Shell scripts

[Jeremy Leonard]

I've solved it.

Here's what I wrote:

for file in /dir/dir/dir/*.ext
do
echo "$1" > $file
done

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert G. Brown" <bob@acm.org>
To: <members@kalamazoolinux.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] Shell scripts


> On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:52:40 -0500, "Jeremy Leonard" <lists@elite4god.com>
wrote:
>
> >I want to replace test in about 200 files....
> text (I'm assuming)
> >I can do everything except iterate on each file.....
> for name in list-of-files ; do something ; done
>
> list-of-files is
> String out the file names ... like more larry curly welby.doc
> or
> and expression in `'s that will list them, like:
> for `cat file-listing-files` ; do ...
>
> something is the command (or commands, separated by ;'s, that you want to
> run...
>
> Hope this helps!
> Regards,
> ---> RGB <---
>
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