script to change unix path to windows path in all files

csross · 04-28-2006, 10:49 AM

I need a shell script to recursively read through a directory and change all instances in a program of /var/www/html/ to /www/Apache2/htdocs/. Additionally I want it to print the full path and name of the file it changed. I can use bash or csh or even perl.

Thank you

Vagrant · 04-28-2006, 11:28 AM

um, why not just `mkdir -p /www/Apache2/htdocs/ && cp -R /var/www/html/* /www/Apache2/htdocs/` ?

Vagrant · 04-28-2006, 11:31 AM

If you're trying to change paths that are written inside of files, you could loop through every file cat and pipe it through sed to do the replace.

csross · 04-28-2006, 12:08 PM

yes, I am trying to read each file and change every occurance of /var/www/html to /www/Apache2/htdocs. I do not script so I was hoping someone had such a script.

Thanks very much.

csross · 04-28-2006, 12:09 PM

This needs to be a recursive read through all directories and the files within each directory.

Again thanks

Vagrant · 04-28-2006, 02:54 PM

Ok, you can do this then. Run this in the dir where the files are:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for i in `find .`
do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
        grepResult=`cat $i | grep "/www/Apache2/htdocs/"`
        if [ -z "$grepResult" ]; then
                echo $i
                cat $i | sed 's/\/var\/www\/html\//\/www\/Apache2\/htdocs\//' > $i
        fi
  fi

done

burninGpi · 04-28-2006, 03:56 PM

The code should be:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

for i in `find . -type f`
do
  if [ -f $i ]; then
        grepResult=`cat $i | grep "/www/Apache2/htdocs/"`
        if [ -z "$grepResult" ]; then
                echo $i
                cat $i | sed 's/\/var\/www\/html\//\/www\/Apache2\/htdocs\//' > $i
        fi
  fi

done

the -type f switch makes find only list files, not dirs.

Vagrant · 04-28-2006, 04:37 PM

burnin, "should" is a bit strong eh? My original code works. The line "if [ -f $i ];." Actually, your way convolutes it, its redudant. If you added "-type f," you could get rid of the "if [ -f $i ]," business.

Its a style choice, I prefer to add a restriction that way.

ioerror · 04-29-2006, 01:05 PM

How about:

Code:

perl -i -wpe 's,/var/www/html,/www/Apache2/htdocs, && print "$ARGV\n"' $(find -type f /top/dir)

Note that this will do _in_place_ replacement, so you might want to backup the directory tree first.