Except that you better quote the dots in the search string and put word boundary match around it or you'll end up replacing too much. See sed's -r switch for more.

On 10/1/08, Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden@iafrica.com wrote:

Mad Unix wrote:

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Dear ALL,

I need some help with bash scripting, a script that search the content of multiple files and replace old string ip "10.5.1.10" with the new string ip "127.128.1.10" it will search in specific folder and sub folders

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How about:

find <startdir> -exec sed "s/10.5.1.10/127.128.1.10/" {} ;

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MHR wrote:

Second, that won't work. Sed does not perform on files in place - its output is sent to stdout unless it is redirected, and you can't redirect it back to the original file. To do something this way, you'd need a script that replaced the input file and used 'sed' to generate the new one (and then the script would have to rename it).

Au contraire:

- From the sed man page:

-i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX]

edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied)

MHR wrote:

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Chris Geldenhuis chris.gelden@iafrica.com wrote:

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How about:

find <startdir> -exec sed "s/10.5.1.10/127.128.1.10/" {} ;

First, the '' characters are unnecessary and confusing, except the one that precedes the semi-colon.

Second, that won't work. Sed does not perform on files in place - its output is sent to stdout unless it is redirected, and you can't redirect it back to the original file. To do something this way, you'd need a script that replaced the input file and used 'sed' to generate the new one (and then the script would have to rename it).

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Apologies I should have included the -i switch for sed to modify file in place.

ChrisG

Mad Unix wrote:

Thanks all

if you are going to be posting to this list, I recommend you read up on what the general guidelists are. Eg. trim your posts atleast and dont top post.