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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting For loop with sed Post 302352137 by Shahul on Thursday 10th of September 2009 12:54:07 PM
Old 09-10-2009
Hi Sick,

Can u make your query very clear....sorry m not able to understand.

let me make it simple:
if you want to take one by one file and replace some certain strings then ..hope below one might help you...

[/CODE]
directory structure:
ls -lrt|nawk '{print $9}'
FILE1
FILE2
FILE3
FILE4
[/CODE]

Code:
for f in `ls -lrt|nawk '{print $9}'`
do
sed -i "s/'string'/'replace'/g" $f
done

Thanks
SHa
 

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