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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] OT: global search and replace
From:       Korthrun <korthrun () gmail ! com>
Date:       2004-09-09 2:50:19
Message-ID: 7d20977a04090819501ca7d532 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 12:33:59 +1000, Andrew Ross <aross@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 11:42, Adam Carter wrote:
> > I need to run a script over all the docs in a htdocs folder (and sub
> > folders) to do a s/oldhostname/newhostname/g - my shell-fu is not up to
> > the task. How can i acheive this?
> 
> # Do the substitution on all files in current dir and subdirs
> ( find . ) | while read FILE
> do
>         sed -i 's/oldhostname/newhostname/g' "${FILE}"
> done
> 
> # Remove temp files created by sed
> for TMP_FILE in $(find . -empty -name 'sed*')
> do
>         rm ${TMP_FILE}
> done
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 
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That looks cool. I always used a
find /some/path -criteria -exec perl -p -i -e 's/old/new/g' \;
or if I don't have wierd criteria, then just do it without the find.
Yay *nix for a billion ways to do something. Gotta love it.

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