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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers improving my script (find & replace) Post 45041 by amir_yosha on Sunday 14th of December 2003 04:41:14 AM
Old 12-14-2003
my script does no work .....
#!/bin/ksh
file_name=$1
old_templet=$2
new_templet=$3

# Loop through every file like this
for file in $file_name
do
cat $file | sed "s/$new_template/$old_template/g" > $file.new
#do a global searce and replace and put the results
mv $file.new $file
#rename $file.new to original name of file
done


i try to run it from the command line, but it does not work.
any idea ???
 

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