madunix@gmail.com wrote:
-type f ??
the string could be a name of file name or subdirectory name
No, it can't. You are *not* going to edit directory names this way, and should not.
mark
Thanks pons
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
madunix@gmail.com wrote:
I would like to use a bash script that searches files and subdirectories name in a directory /var/ww/html/web for a specific string, and when it finds the search string, replaces the string (old1) with new string (new1), and so on old2 with new2 ....oldn with newn.
replace_string.sh #!/bin/bash for db in $(find /var/www/html/web -name * -exec) do  sed -e "s/old1/new1/" \  sed  -e "s/old2/new2/" \ ...  sed -e "s/oldn/newn/" $db done
Close. I think find /var/www/html/web -type f -exec sed -i -e "s/old1/new1/;s/old2/new2/;..." {} ; would do it. The -i is to make the change inplace, editing the existing file.
    mark
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