shell script question

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <652 at sagpd1.UUCP>, jharkins at sagpd1 (Jim Harkins) writes:
| I have a list of files in which I want to change the word 'foo' to the filename.
| What I tried to do was
| 
| foreach i (list of files)
| 	sed 's/foo/$i/' < $i > tmp
| 	mv tmp $i
| end
| 
| But what this does is replace 'foo' with '$i', not the filename.  Can anybody
| help?  I'm running 4.3 BSD UN*X.  Thanks.

Single quotes prevent the CSH from interpreting '$i'.  Your solution
using csh/sed is:

foreach i (list of files)
	sed "s/foo/$i/" <$i >tmp
	mv tmp $i
end

My one-liner solution using Perl is:

perl -pi -e 's/foo/$ARGV/;' list of files

Just another Perl hacker,
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