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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sed across multiple files Post 13507 by theDirtiest on Friday 18th of January 2002 08:48:28 AM
Old 01-18-2002
my try
there is probably a much better way to do this. Please forgive me I have never done any shell programming before (i want to learn) and I just wanted to rack my brain trying to figure out an answer to your problem. here is what I got to work for me. it does however pipe to a new file. sorry i couldn't help you there.



for x in *
do
sed "s/, LA/,LA/g" $x > temp
cat temp > $x
rm temp
done


just make sure you don't already have a file named temp. if yo do then just change the name temp to a file you don't already have.

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tD
Last edited by theDirtiest; 01-18-2002 at 09:56 AM..
 

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ustrtok

ustrtok(3alleg4)						  Allegro manual						  ustrtok(3alleg4)

NAME

       ustrtok - Retrieves tokens from a string. Allegro game programming library.

SYNOPSIS

       #include <allegro.h>

       char *ustrtok(char *s, const char *set);

DESCRIPTION

       This  function  retrieves  tokens  from	`s'  which  are  delimited by characters from `set'. To initiate the search, pass the string to be
       searched as `s'.  For the remaining tokens, pass NULL instead. Warning: Since ustrtok alters the string it is parsing,  you  should  always
       copy  the  string  to  a temporary buffer before parsing it. Also, this function is not re-entrant (ie. you cannot parse two strings at the
       same time). Example:

	  char *word;
	  char string[]="some-words with dashes";
	  char *temp = ustrdup(string);
	  word = ustrtok(temp, " -");
	  while (word) {
	     allegro_message("Found `%s'
", word);
	     word = ustrtok(NULL, " -");
	  }
	  free(temp);

RETURN VALUE

       Returns a pointer to the token, or NULL if no more are found.

SEE ALSO

       uconvert(3alleg4), ustrchr(3alleg4), ustrrchr(3alleg4), ustrstr(3alleg4), ustrpbrk(3alleg4), ustrtok_r(3alleg4),  allegro_message(3alleg4),
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