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From: richard@pantor.UUCP (Richard Sargent)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Looking for a specific utility
Message-ID: <20.UUL1.3#5109@pantor.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 17:21:11 GMT
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Organization: Pansophic Systems Inc, Graphics Product Company
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> From: sdn@anyguay.acm.rpi.edu (Eric Roode)
> Message-ID: <6868@rpi.edu>
> 
> In article <1634@bucket.UUCP> leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) writes:
> >pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion) writes:
> >
> ><	Apply a command line to every file in a directory.
> 
> PC magazine published a utility at least a year ago (I don't remember the
> specific issue) called SWEEP that applied a command to the current directory
> and to all subdirectories under the current directory. If you can find out
> what issue it was, you've got the utility.

I have done this regularly from within DOS. Syntax? Try:

c> for %f in (*.*) do your_command_line

Double the % when used in a batch file.

Of course, there are complications if your_command_line creates new files,
converts *.old to *.new, you can't substitute alternate file name extensions.
In cases like these, I simply use a "new" directory for the output files.

Example:

c> for %f in (*.old) do sed /this/that/ %f >..\new\%f


I hope this helps.

Richard Sargent                   Internet: richard@pantor.UUCP
Systems Analyst                   UUCP:     uunet!pantor!richard