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From: j-o-e-h on 18 Feb 2010 13:50 Am 18.02.2010 13:42, schrieb Ben Bacarisse: > j-o-e-h<j-o-e-h(a)web.de> writes: > >> Am 17.02.2010 18:54, schrieb Ed Morton: > <snip> >>> It's interesting that so far most of the reponses have been addressing >>> the syntax of the "for" loop rather than the question of whether or >>> not you actually need a "for" loop. >>> >>> If the OPs code actually looks something like this: >>> >>> for i in [Dd][Oo]*.pdf >>> do >>> cat "$i" >>> done >>> >>> I wonder if the OP will be happy in the long run to know he really >>> nailed that for loop syntax rather than learning he didn't need a loop >>> in the first place :-). >> >> I do agree, that I didn't think of that before. >> A loop would be needed if u were going to work on those files >> (e.g. add a # copyright by ... line to the end of the files). > > Not necessarily: > > sed -i -e '$aCopyright Me 2010' [Dd][Oo].pdf > > <snip> Great! That'd be a lot easier for that purpose. Thanks, unfortunately I just started "shelling" a few weeks ago - so i still have to learn a lot and that's why I'm on this newsgroup. |