[Gllug] C and Unix pioneer Dennis Ritchie reported dead

[James Hawtin]

Nix wrote:
>
> Yeah. It's not ideal: shell loops are best avoided, so
>
> sed -i -e 's/fish/chips/g' *.html
>   
That fails the google test as well... you mean...

sed -i -e 's/fish/chips/g' -- *.html

(also did my hacked up response as I missed the the double quotes arroud 
the $i )

for i in *.html ; do sed -i -e 's/fish/chips/g' -- "$i" ; done

James

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