From 17f3e2287977895a0c127384472678be78cec022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick White <git@njw.name>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 17:41:06 +0100
Subject: Save dehyphenated text to a different file, rather than overwriting
 the original

---
 dehyphenate.sh | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'dehyphenate.sh')

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
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