[Ilugc] RE: ilugc Digest
- From: andyetitmoves@xxxxxxxxx (Ramkumar R)
- Date: Wed Jul 13 12:58:15 2005
"recursive search a string inside folders & subfolders till the end & to
replace that string"
find <folder> -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ./replacefile s/<search
pattern>/<replacement>/
replacefile:
#!/bin/sh
TEMP=`mktemp -t replacefile.XXXXXX` || exit 1
PAT="$1"
shift
for i in "$@"; do
sed -e $PAT < "$i" > $TEMP && mv $TEMP "$i"
done
# replacefile ends here
it moves on...
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