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ubstek

ubstek

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Feb 2, 2001
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Hello,

I have a bunch of scripts in a dir, and I need to add string $Id$ in the first line of all these scripts.

I want to automate this process.

Thank you very much in advance.
 
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How about:
for i in `ls`
do
echo "$Id$" > /tmp/newfile
cat $i >> /tmp/newfile
mv /tmp/newfile $i
done
 
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