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okay so say you're in directory /a/b/c/

and folder c has folders 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and....

and there is a file called "file" in folders (1-6)

but now that we know that file is in all 6 of those folders lets say that in folders 1,4, and 5 the value of the file "file" was 100 and in all the other folders the value for that file is 0.

if i only want to change the value of the files that have their default value as 100 to lets say.....200

but i want to do it all at once besides just running:

echo 200 > /a/b/c/1/file
echo 200 > /a/b/c/4/file
echo 200 > /a/b/c/5/file

and letting the others stay 0.


...any help is appreciated thanks a lot

Hi,


do you have the gift of ubiquity?
bash either.

Something like this?

could you explain exactly what that does? thank you

It changes "100" standing solely on a line to "200" in all the "file"s in the given directories. Did I get your specification right?

say if you don't know all the folders inside the directory /a/b/c/

would it be ?

If you want everything, use *.

thanks i'll see if that works for my purpose