On 2011-09-23 19:47, madunix at gmail.com wrote: > Hi > > > 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 A more efficient way to perform sed is sed -e "s/old1/new1/" \ -e "s/old2/new2/" \ ... -e "s/oldn/newn/" $db or sed -e "s/old1/new1/ ; s/old2/new2/" .. $db Other hints for efficient nash shell scripts.. http://hacktux.com/bash/script/efficient