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From: jharkins@sagpd1.UUCP (Jim Harkins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: shell script question
Message-ID: <652@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 90 19:11:28 GMT
Organization: Scientific Atlanta-GPD, San Diego
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I have a list of files in which I want to change the word 'foo' to the filename.
What I tried to do was

foreach i (list of files)
	sed 's/foo/$i/' < $i > tmp
	mv tmp $i
end

But what this does is replace 'foo' with '$i', not the filename.  Can anybody
help?  I'm running 4.3 BSD UN*X.  Thanks.

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jim		jharkins@sagpd1

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