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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Newbie using sed in a shell script Post 36266 by ktoz on Monday 26th of May 2003 10:10:51 AM
Old 05-26-2003
Can sed operate on a loop variable?

I'm sure this is an easy one but I can't seem to get it working. Given the following:

for oldName in `ls *.JPG` ;do
newName=<confusion here. how to make sed perform 's/.JPG/_thumb.JPG/g' operation on $oldName>
done

Could someone show me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

Ken

Last edited by ktoz; 05-26-2003 at 03:14 PM..
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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