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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace string in all files in a folder and subfolders. Post 302208700 by crazynups on Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:16:45 PM
Old 06-24-2008
Replace string in all files in a folder and subfolders.

i need to change string in all files in current folder and all subfolders. i wrote the following script. It works good except it dont delete temp file from subfolders.

for z in `find . -type f -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm"`; do
sed -e 's@abc@xyz@g' $z>temp;
mv temp $z;
done

any idea? or any other better solution?
 

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TMPFILE(3)								 1								TMPFILE(3)

tmpfile - Creates a temporary file

SYNOPSIS
resource tmpfile (void ) DESCRIPTION
Creates a temporary file with a unique name in read-write (w+) mode and returns a file handle . The file is automatically removed when closed (for example, by calling fclose(3), or when there are no remaining references to the file handle returned by tmpfile(3)), or when the script ends. For details, consult your system documentation on the tmpfile(3) function, as well as the stdio.h header file. RETURN VALUES
Returns a file handle, similar to the one returned by fopen(3), for the new file or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 tmpfile(3) example <?php $temp = tmpfile(); fwrite($temp, "writing to tempfile"); fseek($temp, 0); echo fread($temp, 1024); fclose($temp); // this removes the file ?> The above example will output: writing to tempfile SEE ALSO
tempnam(3), sys_get_temp_dir(3). PHP Documentation Group TMPFILE(3)
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