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Old 07-12-2011
Change lines in multiple files
Hi.

I have a folder with a large number of files and would like to apply the following changes to each line in each of the files:

sed 's/$/\/Q:_0/'

I wrote a loop, but it just changes the name of the file, not the contents of the file:
Code:
for i in ./dir/*.lab 
do
    sed 's/$/\/Q:_0/'
done

Can someone help please?
# 2  
Old 07-12-2011
Code:
for i in ./dir/*.lab 
do
    sed 's/$/\/Q:_0/' $i > tmp.tmp
    mv tmp.tmp $i
done

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