[Bash] Find occurences in a file, then change them

fr0st · 04-05-2004, 05:05 AM

Hi Guys,

I've got a website in a directory that contains a lot of files, and the name of the site has changed slightly. In the PHP files as HTML is the site name.. Now I want to change it from what it is to something else.. I've been using the following code to find all occurences within all the web files and print them to a file... How can I modify this to find the line and the change it?

Code:

find . -name "*.php" -exec fgrep WebSItENamE {} \; > test

I want WebSItENamE to change to WebSiteName. Sounds simple I guess and I would do it by hand but at last count, theres over a 1000 changes to be made and I don't have the time to do that...

Any help would be most appreciated...

hw-tph · 04-05-2004, 09:09 AM

I suck at sed but it should be the right tool for the job. Something like this to do it recursively perhaps?

Code:

for file in `find . -name \* -type f`; do sed s/WebSItENamE/WebSiteName/ $file >$file.new; mv -f $file.new $file; done

Håkan

/bin/bash · 04-05-2004, 09:11 AM

Of course you should first make a backup of all *.php files.

WARNING: Untested code follows.
for i in *.php;do sed 's/WebSItENamE/WebSiteName/g' $i> $i.bak;mv -f $i.bak $i;done