in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DeepTech thusly... > > sed -e 's/http\:\/\/www\.domain\.htm\///g' *.htm > *.htm
That will most likely destroy the original file(s). Depending on your shell, you will get redirection error from the shell if there happen to be more than one file matching the pattern '*.htm'. In particular, in zsh 4.2.6 ... # cat p polka dot # cp -f p q; cp -f p qq # ls -l p q* -rw------- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 p -rw------- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 q -rw------- 1 parv people 10 Dec 24 23:32 qq # sed -e '' q* >| q* # ls -l q* -rw------- 1 parv people 0 Dec 24 23:34 q -rw------- 1 parv people 0 Dec 24 23:34 qq > NOTE: not sure if u have to use a '\' before that ':' No, ':' need not be escaped. - Parv -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
