[SOLVED] Searching and replacing strings in a file with strings in other files

xndd · 07-29-2010, 02:23 PM

Can you look at all the code pls. Because it gives same error again:

Code:

while read string1
do
find /path -type f -exec sed -i "s/${string1}|string2|/string2/g" '{}' \;
done < string1.txt

All i want to do is searching the path, and if the files contains the expression (expressions in string1.txt) then replace them with string2

Edit:

Oh silly me, just replaced this

Code:

find /path -type f -exec sed -i "s|${string1}|string2|" '{}'\;

and worked fine. Everybody thanx all

GrapefruiTgirl · 07-29-2010, 02:40 PM

Good work