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Drigo

07-22-2011 12:30 PM

Change a string recursively in files located in folders and subfolders

So, lets say I have a project that have generated lots of xml files. Though all these xml files point to a location with the text name TEXT15. I want to change all the files that containts TEXT15 and change it to TEXT16.

This actually works for files in a folder but not recursively in all the entire files....

perl -pi -c 's/TEXT15/TEXT16/g' ./*

but I have many subfolders and within this more subsub folders....i just want to do this recursively.

sycamorex

07-22-2011 12:49 PM

Try the following:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for i in $(find . -name *.xml)

do

        sed 's/TEXT15/TEXT16/g' $i

done

Please note that in order to make permanent changes in the files you need to add the -i flag to sed.

grail

07-22-2011 01:21 PM

I am guessing you could probably just use the find itself:

Code:

find . -name *.xml -exec sed 's/TEXT15/TEXT16/g' {} \;

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