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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] OT: global search and replace
From:       Christian Parpart <cparpart () surakware ! net>
Date:       2004-09-09 13:46:25
Message-ID: 200409091546.28181.cparpart () surakware ! net
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On Thursday 09 September 2004 1:23 pm, Andrew Ross wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 16:33, Alex wrote:
> > i keep one generic script like so :
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> >
> > for file in `find . -name "*.php"`;
> >         do vi -s replace-script $file;
> > done;
>
> Surely that would break when a file or directory contains spaces?

No reason to die ;)

#! /bin/sh

PATTERN="${1}"
REPLACE_SCRIPT="/tmp/${HOSTNAME}-${USER}-replacescript"

cat >${REPLACE_SCRIPT} <<EOF
:1,\$s/${PATTERN}/g
:wq
EOF

find . -name '*.php' -print -exec vi -s ${REPLACE_SCRIPT} {} \;

Cheers,
Christian Parpart.

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