Multi-file search and replace?

miknight · 10-21-2003, 05:50 AM

Hi everyone,

I'd like to perform a search and replace through a whole bunch of files in one dir. What are some good ways of achieving this?

Thanks for any help!

jkobrien · 10-21-2003, 06:10 AM

sed should be able to do what you want.

sed -i.bck 's/old/new/g' file_list

druuna · 10-21-2003, 06:13 AM

Some thing like this (pseudo code):

cd /directory/to/search/

for THESE in `ls <find_string>`
do
-- your search & replace on file ${THESE}--
done

yapp · 10-21-2003, 06:25 AM

Code:

for file in *
do
  sed -e 's/search-pattern/replace-string/g' < "$file" > "$file.2"
  mv "$file.2" "$file"
done

or:

Code:

find /some/folder/ -name "*something*" | while
  read file
do
  .. some thing with $file here.
done

miknight · 10-21-2003, 06:45 PM

Cheers guys I'll try some of these out.