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Old 07-01-2011
thanks,

I tested the code of Corona 688 and it works, how do I do it in multiple files? With a find?

i think that not work well when i use "cat",

With code of DGPickett , also works well

and soryy for my english

PD: i have Unix

Last edited by nonanov; 07-01-2011 at 06:03 PM..
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Old 07-01-2011
Code:
 
find . . . | while read f
do
 sed '...' $f >$f.new
done

We all speak computa heyah!
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