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Insert a line to many files
Name: hismail Date: September 6, 2005 at 08:27:26 Pacific OS: Sco Openser CPU/Ram: 2 gig /2 gig
Comment:
Hi I would like to insert a line to many files in a directory : for example: abc has to be inserted to files harry.pf barry.pf tom.pf The common denominator for these files are the "*.pf" I need to insert "abc" any where inside these pf files.
Name: Luke Chi Date: September 6, 2005 at 08:57:14 Pacific
Reply:
for FILE in `ls *.pf` do echo abc >> $FILE done
Luke Chi
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Response Number 2
Name: hismail Date: September 7, 2005 at 01:48:08 Pacific
Reply:
Hi luke Chi Thanks its works great Just 1 question, if i have to replace a field in the .pf files for example change "128" to "256" ? what do I i use. tried: for FILE in `ls *.pf` do echo sed 's/128/256/g' >> $FILE done
But it just outputs to screen
thanks for your help Hamim
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Response Number 3
Name: Luke Chi Date: September 7, 2005 at 06:05:38 Pacific
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Use:
sed 's/128/256/g' `ls *.pf`
Luke Chi
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Response Number 4
Name: hismail Date: September 7, 2005 at 06:31:47 Pacific
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Hi Luke I tried using `ls *.pf` instead of $FILE but it still also outputs to the screen.
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