find and replace recursively within a directory
September 17, 2005 02:59 PM
is there a program to find and replace text recursively of all files within a directory ?
is there an awk script to do such a thing?
Thanks.
~ Clay
September 17, 2005 10:03 PM
This should work:
for f in dir/*
do
cat $f |sed 's/old/new/g' > $f
done
Replace "dir" "old" and "new" with your own values.
You can type that right in a terminal or put it into a shell script.
for f in dir/*
do
cat $f |sed 's/old/new/g' > $f
done
Replace "dir" "old" and "new" with your own values.
You can type that right in a terminal or put it into a shell script.
301
September 18, 2005 05:24 AM
Quote: Original post by Anonymous Poster
cat $f |sed 's/old/new/g' > $f
Rather use
sed -i 's/old/new/g' $f-i for in place.
September 18, 2005 08:03 AM
Thanks. This script has made my life a bit easier : )
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