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Hi , I have a folder containing abt 50 files each of which has the tag <xyz>abcd</xyz> I want to replace the text between the tags - abcd (it need not be abcd , can be 50 diff strings ) in this case with the file names of these files or anything unique .. I am trying ls REG* | while read i do sed s/\<xyz\>*\<\/xyz\>/\<xyz\>i\<\/xyz\>/ $i done but getting sed:command garbled ... Pls suggest .. Cheers, Nil.

Name: Wolfbone
Date: April 22, 2004 at 04:14:41 Pacific

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No single or double quotes surrounding the sed expression? Depends on your shell but try: sed "s/<xyz>.*<\/xyz>/<xyz>$i<\/xyz>/" $i (You shouldn't need to escape the '<' or '>' signs and you missed out the '.' match any).

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Hi, Thnx ya, the thing worked perfect. Me didn't have idea abt not escaping the '<' and '>' chars , missing the '.' was a oversight though . Cheers, Nil..

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