I used the following script
cd pathname
for y in `ls *`;
do sed "s/ABCD/DCBA/g" $y > temp; mv temp $y;
done
and it worked fine for finding and replacing strings with names etc. in all files of the given path.
I'm trying to replace a string which consists of path (location of file)
... (2 Replies)
I used the following script
cd pathname
for y in `ls *`;
do sed "s/ABCD/DCBA/g" $y > temp; mv temp $y;
done
and it worked fine for finding and replacing strings with names etc. in all files of the given path.
I'm trying to replace a string which consists of path (location of file)
... (11 Replies)
Hi,
filenames:
contains name of list of files to search in.
placelist
contains the names of places to be searched in all files in "filenames"
for i in $(<filenames)
do
egrep -f placelist $i
if ]
then
echo $i
fi
done >> outputfile
Output i am getting: (0 Replies)
find . -type f -name "*.sql" -print|xargs perl -i -pe 's/pattern/replaced/g'
this is simple logic to find and replace in multiple files & folders
Hope this helps.
Thanks
Zaheer (0 Replies)
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