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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search and Replace with Confirmation Post 302391651 by Abhinav Tyagi on Tuesday 2nd of February 2010 05:28:14 AM
Old 02-02-2010
This is the script for searching and replacing string in dir:

Code:
for file in $(grep -l "$find" $path)   #finds files with searched value 
      do
           echo " "
           echo "Modifying : " $file
           sed  's/'"$find"'/'"$replace"'/g' $file > temp.txt
           mv temp.txt $file
           echo " "
           echo "Modified : " $file
      done


Now I need to ask for user confirmation before replacing by showing each line (with $find) from each file in dir and replace only those LINES where user enters 'y'.

Please refer my previous post for example.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Thanks
Abhinav Smilie

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-02-2010 at 06:40 AM.. Reason: code tags, please...
 

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script(1)							   User Commands							 script(1)

NAME
script - make record of a terminal session SYNOPSIS
script [-a] [filename] DESCRIPTION
The script utility makes a record of everything printed on your screen. The record is written to filename. If no file name is given, the record is saved in the file typescript. See WARNINGS. The script command forks and creates a sub-shell, according to the value of $SHELL, and records the text from this session. The script ends when the forked shell exits or when Control-d is typed. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -a Appends the session record to filename, rather than overwriting it. NOTES
script places everything that appears on the screen in filename, including prompts. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |CSI |Enabled | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5) WARNINGS
script can pose a security risk when used in directories that are writable by other users (for example, /tmp), especially when run by a privileged user, that is, root. Be sure that typescript is not a link before running script. SunOS 5.11 30 Jan 2004 script(1)
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