Hi,

I am going a global replace using the below script.My problem is the last line of the property file is getting deleted.Please any idea on this issue

find /export/home/direfor -type f -name '*.properties' -print | while read i
do
echo "the files that are being read are: " $i
sed 's|'$1'|'$2'|g' $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i
done

Thanks
Prasad.V

It works fine for me.
Put the contents file that you are using and also the $1 and the $2 options.

sed will completely ignore the last line of the file if it is does not end with a newline. If this is the case, if you open one of these files with vi, it will issue a warning to this effect.

awk does not ignore these incomplete last lines, so you could use:

awk '{gsub("'$1'","'$2'");print}' $i > $i.tmp && mv $i.tmp $i