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Search And Replace With Sed
Name: James Gordon Date: September 18, 2002 at 23:55:14 Pacific OS: Sun Solaris CPU/Ram: Unknown
Comment:
Hi,
I intend to do a search and replace for specific words for files under a directory (inclusive of subdirectories).
I know how to do that file by file using sed and redirect it to the original file. But now, I need to search for multiple files and update accordingly.
Name: tom z. Date: September 19, 2002 at 03:14:46 Pacific
Reply:
Maybe a for loop with a variable for your filenames generated by ls?
foreach file (`ls`) do whatever $file done
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Response Number 2
Name: David Perry Date: September 19, 2002 at 05:31:38 Pacific
Reply:
for pattern in "string1" "string2" ; do for file in `find /full/path/root/to/search/ -exec grep -l $pattern {} \;` ; do ls -l $file ; sed -e 's/$pattern/newpattern/' $file > $file.tmp mv $file.tmp $file done ; done | mail user@domain.com
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