{"id":662,"date":"2012-07-10T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T08:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmohan.com\/?p=662"},"modified":"2012-07-10T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T08:59:04","slug":"search-and-replace-recursively-on-a-directory-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/?p=662","title":{"rendered":"Search and replace recursively on a directory in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Search and replace recursively on a directory in Linux<\/strong><\/h3>\n

ere is the small bash shell script to make life simple… This script can do a search for string and replace with a new string recursively in a directory.<\/p>\n

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\n#!\/bin\/bash
\n# This script will search and replace all regular files for a string
\n# supplied by the user and replace it with another string.
\nfunction usage {
\necho “”
\necho “Search\/replace script”
\necho “Usage: .\/$0 searchstring replacestring”
\necho “Remember to escape any special characters in the searchstring or the replacestring”
\necho “”
\n}<\/p>\n

#check for required parameters
\nif [ ${#1} -gt 0 ] && [ ${#2} -gt 0 ];
\nthen<\/p>\n

for f in `find -type f`;
\ndo
\ngrep -q $1 $f
\nif [ $? = 0 ];then
\ncp $f $f.1bak
\necho “The string $1 will be replaced with $2 in $f”
\nsed s\/$1\/$2\/g < $f.1bak > $f
\nrm $f.1bak
\nfi
\ndone<\/p>\n

else
\n#print usage informamtion
\nusage
\nfi
\n——————————————————————–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Search and replace recursively on a directory in Linux <\/p>\n

ere is the small bash shell script to make life simple… This script can do a search for string and replace with a new string recursively in a directory.<\/p>\n

——————————————————————————– #!\/bin\/bash # This script will search and replace all regular files for a string # supplied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mohan.sg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}