Your code actually works for me!
I tried it with some sample files I created and it worked as it
should, replacing the string with % in each file.
Perhaps your shell has trouble understading *.ly.
Try
for fl in `ls *.ly`; do
..
also, the
sed --in-place 's/barNumberCheck/%/g' $fl
suggestion by Dan is also a good Idea if you don't need to keep the
original files :)
Alex
On 8/28/06, Aaron Mehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
I have sed finding and replacing for me. Thanks to Alex and Tzafrir for
your help :)
but I need to do it for a whole directory of files.
I found a script that uses sed for another recursive task and tried to
substitute my replace script, but alas it didn't work.
--------------------------------
for fl in *.ly; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/barNumberCheck/%/g' $fl.old > $fl
#rm -f $fl.old
done
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I realize I am doing this as a parrot exercise, but presently I have few
other choices, and if it had worked......
I wouldn't be writing this email :)
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Aaron
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