Hi


I want to get rid of possible ampersands in files in a certain directory with
sed. As i know so far i have to use the original file then write to a second
file. As i want the original name i have to rename the generated files
afterwards. That is what i am basically trying to do. Probabely i commit a
mistake by naming files or variables. I am back to trial an error and as not
succesfull requesting for .


Part of the script...
....
pfad2="/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/"
kurt="/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi"
....
cd $pfad2;
for gulu in $pfad2"*[[:digit:]]"; do cp $gulu $kurt; sed 's/\&/∓/g' $kurt >
$gulu; rm /home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi; done
....

The following errors are produced:
cp: `/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi': specified destination
directory does not exist
Try `cp --' for more information.
../zza.sh: line 61: $gulu: ambiguous redirect
rm: cannot remove `/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi': No such
file or directory

Any is appreciated.
Thanks.

Peter Guyan, Chur

> for gulu in $pfad2"*[[:digit:]]"; do cp $gulu $kurt; sed 's/\&/∓/g'
> $kurt > $gulu; rm /home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi; done

Always take your in this case my time. It's not elegant, but it works.

for gulu in *[[:digit:]]; do cp $gulu $gulu"_temp"; sed 's/\&/∓/g'
$gulu"_temp" > $gulu ; rm $gulu"_temp"; done

yours
Peter

On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:47:06 +0200, Peter Guyan
<peter.guyan@tele_zwei_.ch> wrote:
>
>
> Part of the script...
> ...
> pfad2="/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/"
> kurt="/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi"
> ...
> cd $pfad2;
> for gulu in $pfad2"*[[:digit:]]";
> do
> cp $gulu $kurt;
> sed 's/\&/&mp;/g' $kurt > > $gulu;
> rm /home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi;
> done
> ...
>
> The following errors are produced:
> cp: `/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi': specified destination
> directory does not exist
Because you quoted the wildcard, it was expanded in the wrong place. cp
sees more than two arguments, so it expects the last argument to be a
directory.

> Try `cp --' for more information.
> ./zza.sh: line 61: $gulu: ambiguous redirect
> rm: cannot remove `/home/peter/rss-urteile/bge-2000/entscheide/susi': No such
> file or directory
>
> Any is appreciated.
> Thanks.
>
for gulu in $pfad2*[[:digit:]]

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