On Saturday 20 November 2004 08:14, Chris White wrote:
>     I created this quick little function to recursively patch Makefiles
> with custom CFLAGS.

wouldn't it be simpler to do:

for dir in $(find -name "Makefile" .)
do
 sed -i \
        -e "s:^CFLAGS.*:CFLAGS = ${CFLAGS}:" \
        -e "s:^CXXFLAGS.*:CXXFLAGS = ${CXXFLAGS}:" \
 ${dir} \
        || die "Could not patch $directories/Makefile for custom CFLAGS"
done


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