On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 9:49 PM, <tony.chamberlain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Basically I want to find all files with a string (except binary)
> and change it. let STR be the string I am looking for. NEW is new string.
Hmm, why not ditch find entirely, and just use grep? Something like:
TFIL=/usr/tmp/dummy$$.txt
grep -Ilr "$STR" * > $TFIL
for fil in $( cat $TFIL); do
sed -i "s/$STR/$NEW/g" $fil
done
Man grep says: "-I Process a binary file as if it did not contain
matching data". Also -l gives you the filename and relative path.
If $STR contains "/"s then you could use # instead.
sed -i "s#$STR#$NEW#g" $fil
I dont know how much the searched for string would change, but you
could test if it contained "/" and then use sed with "#" instead.
Also you might want to use "sed -ibak ..." instead since this will
backup the unchanged file to filename.bak, should your substitution go
awry. The letters after "i" specify the extension you want to use.
Eric Sisolak
>
> Basically I want to find all files with a string (except binary)
> and change it. let STR be the string I am looking for. NEW is new string.
Hmm, why not ditch find entirely, and just use grep? Something like:
TFIL=/usr/tmp/dummy$$.txt
grep -Ilr "$STR" * > $TFIL
for fil in $( cat $TFIL); do
sed -i "s/$STR/$NEW/g" $fil
done
Man grep says: "-I Process a binary file as if it did not contain
matching data". Also -l gives you the filename and relative path.
If $STR contains "/"s then you could use # instead.
sed -i "s#$STR#$NEW#g" $fil
I dont know how much the searched for string would change, but you
could test if it contained "/" and then use sed with "#" instead.
Also you might want to use "sed -ibak ..." instead since this will
backup the unchanged file to filename.bak, should your substitution go
awry. The letters after "i" specify the extension you want to use.
Eric Sisolak
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