Commiting changes to SED outpput

[dsm325]

Please help,

I am trying to delete a word in several files, and I am not succeeding:

sed 's!/data!! *.sh

I also tried sed 's/\/data//g'

The changes do printout on the screen but not when I cat or vi the file.

How can I commit these changes, thanks much

 

[Salem]

Doing something like

  sed 's!/data!! *.sh

processes all your *.sh files, but combines them all into a single output to the screen.

You need to loop over the files, and capture the output of each one

# for all *.sh files
for i in *.sh ; do
  mv $i $i.bak                 # make a backup file
  sed 's!/data!!' $i.bak > $i  # sed the backup, and put the results in the original
done

After you're happy all went well, then you can delete all the *.sh.bak files.


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[dsm325]

thanks much that worked.