Save dehyphenated text to a different file, rather than overwriting the original

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/dehyphenate.sh b/dehyphenate.sh
index 5dae71b..7656476 100644
--- a/dehyphenate.sh
+++ b/dehyphenate.sh
@@ -5,4 +5,8 @@ Removes word-breaking hyphens from all .txt files in a directory."
 
 test $# -ne 1 && echo "$usage" && exit 1
 
-find "$1" -type f -name '*txt' -exec perl -0777pi -e 's/-\n(\S+)\s*/\1\n/smg' '{}' ';'
+find "$1" -type f -name '*.txt' | while read i; do
+	d=`dirname "$i"`
+	b=`basename "$i" .txt`
+	perl -0777p -e 's/-\n(\S+)\s*/\1\n/smg' "$i" > "$d/$b.dehyphenated.txt"
+done