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Find/Replace in subdirectories

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Hi, I have the following script that finds and replaces a given string pattern in all files within the directory it is executed. What change does it require so it can do the same in all the subdirectories. Thanks, Vasu. #!/bin/ksh #Loop through every file like this for file in *.htm* do cat $file | sed "s/johhn/John/g" > $file.new #do a global search and replace and put the results in $file.new mv $file.new $file #rename $file.new to original name of file done

Name: nails
Date: June 20, 2003 at 08:21:35 Pacific

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Hi: Use the find command. This particular command greps only text files #untested find . -type f -print | xargs file | grep -i text | cut -f1 -d: | xargs egrep "*.htm*" Regards, Nails

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Name: Dlonra
Date: June 23, 2003 at 08:35:53 Pacific

Reply:

replace your "for file in *.htm" with for file in $(find . -type f -name '*\.htm')

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