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Old 11-17-2008
appending a line to the end of several hundred files
I have a bunch of files named publish.php within subdirs. I need to append a line at the end of each file. I thought I could do it with find and echo like this:

Code:
find . -name publish.php -exec echo "<? include('path/to/file.php'); ?>" >> '{}' \;

but that appends the line to a file named {} instead of the find results.

I've also tried this:
Code:
echo "<? include('path/to/file.php'); ?>" >> $(find . -name publish.php)

but bash throws an "ambiguous redirect" error

What am I doing wrong?
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Old 11-17-2008
appending a line to the end of several hundred files
find /tmp -name publish.php | while read a ; do echo "<? include('path/to/file.php'); ?>" >> ${a} ; done
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Old 11-17-2008
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Originally Posted by elbrand
find /tmp -name publish.php | while read a ; do echo "<? include('path/to/file.php'); ?>" >> ${a} ; done
ah! thanks! I spent all damn day trying to figure this out Smilie
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