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Substring Replacement in Bash
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substring_replacement.sh
# Works okay:
FILE=something.txt; echo ${FILE/txt/log}
# Works okay:
find . -name \*.txt -exec sh -c 'FILE={}; echo ${FILE}' \;
# Fails with 'sh: 1: Bad substitution':
find . -name \*.txt -exec sh -c 'FILE={}; echo ${FILE/txt/log}' \;
# Works
find . -name \*.txt -exec bash -c 'FILE={}; echo ${FILE/txt/log}' \;
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