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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting insert filename into file using SED (or AWK) Post 302083483 by blowtorch on Sunday 6th of August 2006 10:08:53 PM
Old 08-06-2006
How about this:
Code:
for i in *; do
ex $i <<EOF
i
$i
.
wq
EOF
done

I doubt that it would be very easy to do it using sed, as sed writes to standard output. You would have to pull stunts like redirecting standard output to a file at the beginning of the script and changing that for every file that you want to change...
 

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SYNOPSIS

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