Re: cp file with a filter

[Paul Hoffman <nkuitse@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 09:27:31PM +0000, zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I want to copy a file to various subdirectories while changing a value in the 
> file on the fly
> 
> eg 
> cat init.php | sed s/flag=2/flag=3/ > dir3/init.php
> cat init.php | sed s/flag=2/flag=4/ > dir4/init.php
> 
> where there is a relationship between the directory name and flag value
> (I know I could extract the number of the directory using the php)

typeset -a flags
flags=( 3 4 )
for f in $flags; do
    sed "s/flag=2/flag=$f/" init.php > dir$f/init.php
done

Paul.

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Paul Hoffman <nkuitse@xxxxxxxxxxx>