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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Another awk question Post 302490021 by pavlosgr on Sunday 23rd of January 2011 12:18:23 PM
Old 01-23-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Assuming you want to search for the word "FindMe" in the files and replace them with "WriteMe":
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

search="FindMe"
replace="WriteMe"
SearchDir="/your/dir"

find $SearchDir -type f | 
while read file
  grep "$search" "$file" > /dev/null 2>&1
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then
    awk '$0 ~ s {gsub(s, r)}1' s="$search" r="$replace" "$file" > "${file}".$$
    mv "${file}".$$ "$file"
  fi
done

Thanks for the reply but I'm a little lost.
What the redirection /dev/null 2 is? And a 2nd redirection after that?
Can we direct output in two directions at the some time?

That's my main problem as I cannot figure out how I'm going to produce a report file (filename - file line number - new line content) and on the some time to direct my output to each file that needs to be changed.
 

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