[Gllug] error in bash script to rename files in a directory

[Tethys]

Stig Brautaset writes:

>> $ perl -p -i.bak -e 's/php3/php/g' *
>
>Or without perl:
>
>for i in *; ex $i <<EOF
>,s/php3/php/g
>wp
>EOF
>done

True, but ex is designed as an interactive editor, and while you *can*
kludge it to run non-interactively like this, why not just use sed,
which was desgined from the start for non-interactive use?

	for i in *
	do
		sed 's/php3/php/g' "$i" > "$i.$$"
		[ -s "$i.$$" ] && mv "$i.$$" "$i"
	done

Tet

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