08-27-2010
The syntax you use can be also used in sed. If your sed has the -i option (perl has an option like this too), you can just edit the files directly. Else you might want to write the output of sed to a tmp file and mv it back to the original file.
If you can print the files with a find and hand them over to sed -i with -exec or xargs for example.
If you feed the filenames from a file, then a while loop may be a good idea.
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SYNOPSIS
shtool install [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-d|--mkdir] [-c|--copy] [-C|--compare-copy] [-s|--strip] [-m|--mode mode] [-o|--owner owner]
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