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David Rasmussen wrote:
> Joakim Hove wrote:
>> how about redirection: 
>> expand file > tmp_file ; mv tmp_file file
> 
> Sure, but that doesn't solve the problem with batch runs. I can't do
> 
> expand *.cpp
> 
> which would have been very easy.

#!/bin/zsh
#or choose a sufficiently powerful shell, such as bash

for file in *.cpp
do
  expand $file > tmp_file
  mv tmp_file $file
done

#See also nntp://comp.unix.shell