[KLUG Members] Shell scripts

[Robert G. Brown]

That's fine, the newline is a synonym for ;

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 16:20:12 -0500, "Jeremy Leonard" <lists@elite4god.com> wrote:
>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 <---
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Members mailing list
>> Members@kalamazoolinux.org
>> 
>>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Members mailing list
>Members@kalamazoolinux.org
>