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> Hi,
> Does your script choke telling you that it has no idea who is
> $fl.old ?
> My guess is that the correct syntax for what you intended to do
> is:
> for fl in *.ly; do
> mv $fl ${fl}.old
> sed 's/barNumberCheck/%/g' ${fl}.old > $fl
> #rm -f ${fl}.old
> done
Let sed do the copying around:
for fl in *.ly; do
sed --in-place 's/barNumberCheck/%/g' $fl
done
or if you do not have too many files
sed --in-place 's/barNumberCheck/%/g' *.ly
Dan
>
> Cheers, Avraham
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