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

[Stig Brautaset]

On Dec 31 2002, Tethys wrote:
> 
> 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?

Because I wanted to be different :)

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

You have to admit that this isn't exactly pretty. I've found myself many
times wanting a 'same file' flag to sed. That would ease these cases a
bit, but I'm not sure it's a good idea for other reasons.

Stig
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