We have a winner!!!  I had to put a -print instead of print but it 
worked like a charm.


Thanks,

Steve

R P Herrold wrote:

> On Fri, 27 May 2005, steve Phariss wrote:
>
>> I am trying to replace all instances of  .html to .php in multiple 
>> files (same directory)  I have tried a few of the sed command scripts 
>> I found on the web, but they do not seem to be working.
>
>
> for i in `find _start_directory_ type f -a print`; do
>     cp $i $i.backup
>     sed -e 's/\.html/\.php/g' < $i.backup > $i
> done
>
> should work, and yet leave a safety pristine copy behind
>
> - Russ Herrold
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