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Shell Script For Find And Replace

04.10.2012

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        Here's a little shell snippet for finding and replacing text in multiple files:

for fl in *.txt; do
mv $fl $fl.old
sed 's/find/replace/g' $fl.old > $fl
done

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Snippets Manager replied on Sun, 2010/02/28 - 6:41pm

Just an FYI. Both the above posts seem tedious. You can do this in one line in a shell script or in your favorite CLI: (first cd /home/dir/of/choice **** make sure to check you have the correct directory with 'pwd' first!!!) Then: sed -i 's/search/replace/g' * SED is very powerful so please be careful. * means all files. you could also do *.py / *.pl / *.php -CHO AT FOUNDCO.COM