code_junkie

Prepend to multiple files in bash/osx terminal

Nov 14th, 2011
131
0
Never
Not a member of Pastebin yet? Sign Up, it unlocks many cool features!
text 0.70 KB | None | 0 0
  1. find ./ -name "somename.txt"
  2.  
  3. find ./ -name somename.txt -exec sed -e '1i
  4. My new text here` {} ;
  5.  
  6. find ./ -name somename.txt -exec sed -i .bak -e '2q;1i
  7. My new text here` {} ;
  8.  
  9. find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f | while read line; do sed -i 'iThis text gets prepended' -- "$line"; done
  10.  
  11. find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f | xargs sed -i 'iGets prepended' --
  12.  
  13. find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f -exec sed -i 'iText that gets prepended (dont remove the i)' -- '{}' ;
  14.  
  15. find ./ -name "somename.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 prepend_stuff_to
  16.  
  17. find . -name "somename.txt" | while read a; do prepend_stuff_to "$a" ; done
  18.  
  19. find . -name "somename.txt -exec prepend_stuff_to "{}" ;
Add Comment
Please, Sign In to add comment