awk/tr find and replace on multiple files

[dbluch]

Is there a way to perform a character translation on multiple files?

Something similar to a mv *.txt /TextFiles/. which moves all .txt files to the new dir.

If I do a tr -s ' ' '_' < *.txt (which I want to replace all spaces with underscores in all .txt files), I get a shell error.

Maybe with awk?
nawk '/ / {gsub(&quot; &quot;,&quot;_&quot;print}' *.txt
But this just spits it out to the userspace. An IO redirect results in another shell error.

thanks
Dean

 

[vgersh99]

#!/bin/ksh

for i in *.txt
do
ex - ${i} <<EOF
%s/ /_/g
wq!
EOF
done
vlad
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[CaKiwi]

Or if you want to use awk and create a copy of the files in another directory

nawk '{gsub(/ /,&quot;_&quot;fn=&quot;/TextFiles/&quot; FILENAME;print > fn}' *.txt

CaKiwi