Re: how to us sed on multiple files ?

Here is a related way to do it, from within a shell script:

file_list="file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt"

for file in $file_list; do
   echo "Working on $file ..."
   sed "s/\<hello\>/howdy/" $file > /tmp/temp.x
   mv /tmp/temp.x $file
done

On 2/10/2019 2:49 AM, [email protected] [sed-users] wrote:
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>   thanks in advance,
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>   alex fessler
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