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# 1  
Old 01-17-2009
Replace text with filename
Hi,

I have a few thousand files, each contains the word "hello". Would it be possible to do a batch job that replaces the word hello with the filename?

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 01-17-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by calrog
I have a few thousand files, each contains the word "hello". Would it be possible to do a batch job that replaces the word hello with the filename?
Code:
for file in *
do
  sed "s|hello|$file|" "$file" > tempfile$$ &&
   mv tempfile$$ "$file"
done

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Old 01-17-2009
Thanks, worked like a charm.
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