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I need to update the date content in a bunch of files called march1, march2, march4, march5,...., march30, april1, april2,....april28 for P in $1 [# march* --->$1] do sed 's/*2002/*2003/g' $1 > $1.tmp mv $1.tmp $1 done This script can only handle the march1 but not for all files with march Can anyone help me?

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Sorry, the actual script: for P in $1 [# march* --->$1] do sed 's/*2002/*2003/g' $P > $P.tmp mv $P.tmp $P done Can anyone have a suggestion?

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Name: Wolfbone
Date: April 29, 2004 at 23:05:55 Pacific

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Try using $@ instead of $1

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