How to add a line to files found with find

[aeamacman]

I am trying to develop a command to find all .bashrc files in the /home directory on the system (dumping errors to the bit bucket), and add a line to each to change the ps1 prompt to > .

This is my silly attempt so far :

find /home .bashrc 2>/dev/null

which is just finding the files without error messages. But to add ps1 = > to each line all in one command, I need a lil help. Thanks guys.

[Snowhog]

Re: How to add a line to files found with find

I don't think I get the gist of what you are wanting to do. If all you want to do is find .baschrc files in your home directory, you can open a console (which will open in your home directory) and type:

ls -l .bashrc*

[mchuskie]

Re: How to add a line to files found with find

for i in `command to generate list of files`; do somecommand; othercommand; done

"echo foo >> bar" will append the string "foo" to the end of file bar.

Hope this helps!