[SLUG] Re: script assistance please

[Matt Palmer <mpalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:36:59AM +1000, David wrote:
> I need to go through an entire directory replacing foo.bar with bar.foo 
> within each file and at the same time I also need to replace macintosh 
> line breaks with unix ones.

for file in $(ls /dir); do
	# String translation
	sed 's/foo\.bar/bar.foo/' $file | tr '\r' '\n' > $file.replaced
	mv $file.replaced $file
done

Test it in a sample directory first, I'm not 100% sure that tr will work as
I expect...

- Matt

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