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Old 10-15-2010
What is find and replace command in unix?
hello forum memvers,


1:I have to write a script for find a string and replace with another string.
2:In shell script how to replace one string with another string.Smilie
# 2  
Old 10-15-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by rajkumar_g
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1:I have to write a script for find a string and replace with another string.
2:In shell script how to replace one string with another string.
Post your script over here and we'll look into it.
If you do not have a script ready, then try writing one first and then post it over here if you get stuck.

tyler_durden
# 3  
Old 10-15-2010
thanks for suggestion
I know find command to search a string but i dont know how to replace with other string. for example.
i am finding for Hosts.
find . -type f -exec grep -l "Hosts" {} \;
but idont know how to replace with "Server".


Thanks & Regards
Rajkumar g
# 4  
Old 10-15-2010
Are you willing to rename files ?
or do you just want to generate a list of modified filename in it ?
# 5  
Old 10-15-2010
Here's one way
Code:
for file in *
do
   sed "s/Hosts/Server/g" $file > tmpfile && mv tmpfile $file
done

Gary
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