Check all files in directories for string and remove.. possible?

#1 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005

Say I am in /var/adm/bin and I want to search through all the various scripts and such in that directory for a string, say, xxx@yyy.com

I want to find every file with that in there and replace it with a single space.

Is that possible?

Or, is it possible to search every file and get a list of what files have that in there?

If I do a more * | grep xxx@yyy.com I get a list of all the lines with that in there but no reference to the file name.

Anyone have any ideas?

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005

for starters:

Code:

grep -l 'xxx@yyy.com' *

Abhishek Ghose · #3 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by vgersh99

for starters:

Code:

grep -l 'xxx@yyy.com' *

This wont work if you have subdirectories with files inside them.
In which case you could use something like this:

grep "pattern" `find /path -name * -print`

vgersh99 · #4 (**permalink**) 11-30-2005

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abhishek Ghose

This wont work if you have subdirectories with files inside them.
In which case you could use something like this:

grep "pattern" `find /path -name * -print`

you're right, but read the original post, pls!

Just Ice · #5 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005

you could also do ...

grep xxx@yyy.com *

Just Ice · #6 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005

i just read the original post ...

this is in ksh ...

Code:

for file in `grep -l xxx@zzz.com *`
do
    sed "s/xxx@zzz.com/ /g" $file > /tmp/123
    cat /tmp/123 > $file
    rm /tmp/123
done

ashterix · #7 (**permalink**) 11-29-2005

perl:

$ perl -pi -e 's|bar\@mydomain.com||g' *

use -pi.bak if u need to backup your original files (will renamed as .bak)

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