saving ownership 2

[farley99]

I run that and it change the ownership in everyfile containing 208 to root, but i want to keep it as the current owner, how can i do this?

files=`grep -r 162 * -l | grep -v convert`
for ii in $files; do
echo "Processing $ii"
sed -e "s/162/208/" $ii >$ii.tmp;mv $ii.tmp $ii
done

 

[PHV]

Try this:

for ii in $files; do
  echo "Processing $ii";cp $ii $ii.tmp
  sed -e "s/162/208/" $ii.tmp >$ii;rm $ii.tmp
done

Or this if files are not huge:

for ii in $files; do
  echo "Processing $ii"
  echo '1,$s/162/208/\nwq' | ex -s $ii
done

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[farley99]

Are there any other ways to do it?

 

[Annihilannic]

perl -pi.bak -e 's/162/208/' $files

Take out the .bak if you don't want backups of the files.

Annihilannic.

 

[PHV]

While another way ? What's wrong with the 2 I've suggested ?

 

[farley99]

Those were great hense the star, I am just wanting to learn all possible ways to do something like that. I appreciate your help.