Replacing text inside a directory

vatsan · #1 (**permalink**) 03-30-2006

This is my first post to this group.I am new to Unix.I have one requirement

I need to replace a text in all the files in a directory and sub-directory.Eg i have a folder structure like /usr/local/abc , inside abc i have several directories and several files. All the files inside abc and all the files inside sub-directories of abc has the text 'usr/local/def' hard coded. I need to replace the 'usr/local/def to usr/local/ghi. This needs to be repalced for all the files and files of subdirectories in abc.

Can someone help me out here?

Thanks

blowtorch · #2 (**permalink**) 04-01-2006

Use the find command to get the files under the /usr/local/abc directory and use sed or ex to replace text.

Something like:

Code:

for filename in $(find /usr/local/abc -type f); do
   sed 's/usr\/local\/def/usr\/local\/ghi/' $filename > $filename.mod;
   # mv $filename.mod $filename  ## unhash this after a test run to ensure that text replacement has happened as required
done

-- NOT TESTED.

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