shell script question

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <652 at sagpd1.UUCP> jharkins at sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins) writes:
>
>foreach i (list of files)
>	sed 's/foo/$i/' < $i > tmp
            ^^^^^^^^^^^
>	mv tmp $i
>end

The single quotes stop expansion of shell variables, hence the change to 
$i.  You should use something like

 	sed "s/foo/$i/" < $i > tmp
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