madunix at gmail.com wrote: > pons > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 9:08 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> madunix at gmail.com wrote: >>>>>-type f ?? >>> the string could be a name of file name or subdirectory name <snip> >> I realized another question: are you trying to rename files? >> > yes files and directories too .. > Then different commands - sed for the files, mv for the directories. This begins to look like a perl script. mark >>> >>> 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 >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >