madunix at gmail.com wrote: >>>-type f ?? > the string could be a name of file name or subdirectory name > I hate webmail. After I hit <send> and while it was thinking about going, I realized another question: are you trying to rename files? mark > Thanks > pons > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> madunix at 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >