Are you using a GNU sed? Then you can do this:

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/Info\*/Info\&/g' {} \;

HTH,
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Hi
I need to replace all the occurrences of
Info*
with the string
Info&
in all the files in a given directory.

the command below which was thankfully supplied by some one here did
not do it. I tried to escape the "*" character but could not.

for file in *; do [ -f "$file" ] || continue; sed
's/Info*/Info&/g' "$file" > tempfile && cp -- tempfile "$file"; done

who can I do it?

thanks

Gary Wessle <phddas@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
> I need to replace all the occurrences of
> Info*
> with the string
> Info&
> in all the files in a given directory.
>
> the command below which was thankfully supplied by some one here did
> not do it. I tried to escape the "*" character but could not.
>
> for file in *; do [ -f "$file" ] || continue; sed
> 's/Info*/Info&/g' "$file" > tempfile && cp -- tempfile "$file"; done

You need to escape both, the asterisk and the ampersand in sed's
substitute command:

for file in *; do
[ -f "$file" ] || continue
sed 's/Info\*/Info\&/g' "$file" >tempfile \
&& cp -- tempfile "$file"
done

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Kenan Kalajdzic

2006-12-09, 00:50(+11), Gary Wessle:
>
> Hi
> I need to replace all the occurrences of
> Info*
> with the string
> Info&
> in all the files in a given directory.
>
> the command below which was thankfully supplied by some one here did
> not do it. I tried to escape the "*" character but could not.
>
> for file in *; do [ -f "$file" ] || continue; sed
> 's/Info*/Info&/g' "$file" > tempfile && cp -- tempfile "$file"; done
[...]

Unluckily enough, the "*" happens to be special in the LHS (left
hand side) of a sed substitution (where it means 0 or more of
the preceding item) and "&" on the RHS (where it is replaced by
the matched portion).

So, that command replaces Inf with InfoInf and Infooo with
InfoInfooo for instance.

for file in *; do
[ -f "$file" ] &&
sed 's/Info\*/Info\&/g' < "$file" > tempfile &&
cp -- tempfile "$file"
done

(note that the "--" in the cp command line is only necessary for
the GNU version of cp, other implementations don't allow options
after arguments).


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Stéphane

Gary Wessle wrote:
> I need to replace all the occurrences of
> Info*
> with the string
> Info&
> in all the files in a given directory.
find . -type f -exec sh -c '<<\! ed -- {}
1,$s/Info\*/Info\&/g
w
q' \;