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On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:12:51AM -0700, Erhy wrote:
>
>Hello,
> This command is OK:
>sed  -i '0,/small/s//big/' "Choir Aehs.sfz" "Choir Ahs.sfz"
> and edits both files
>
> but this returns with Errors:
>sed  -i '0,/small/s//big/' `find . -name '*.sfz' -print`
>
>by showing the parts of the names seperatet with spaces:
>sed: kann ./Choir nicht lesen: No such file or directory
>sed: kann Aehs.sfz nicht lesen: No such file or directory
>sed: kann ./Choir nicht lesen: No such file or directory
>sed: kann Ahs.sfz nicht lesen: No such file or directory
>
>Because I Have do edit a big number of files in subdirectories
>it would be helpful for me.

This is not a cygwin-specific problem but you could investigate find
and xargs, e.g.,

find -name '*.sfz' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '0,/small/s//big/'

cgf

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