[Tfug] Quick command line question...

brandon brandons.daemon at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 15:01:23 MST 2010


On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Concluding this (for now?) here's what actually worked:
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/HandCountedPaperBallots/HCPB/g' $i>
> `basename $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/subvert DRE tabulation/subvert tabulation/g'
> $i> `basename $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/direct voter/direct voters/g' $i> `basename
> $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/direct voterss/direct voters/g' $i>
> `basename $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/jam CCOS scanner/jam scanner/g' $i>
> `basename $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> for i in *.adm; do sed 's/jam PCOS scanner/jam scanner/g' $i>
> `basename $i`.TMP; done
> for i in *.TMP; do mv $i `basename $i .TMP`; done
>
> :)
>
> THANKS!!!
>
> Jim
>
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Hi Jim-
Something else I didn't point out is the use of quotes, didn't want to take
all the fun out of it =) If you have file names with spaces in them the
above will fail.

Thanks
-Brandon
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