Script to find & replace a multiple lines string across multiple php files and subdirectories
Hey guys. I know pratically 0 about Linux, so could anyone please give me instructions on how to accomplish this ?
The distro is RedHat 4.1.2 and i need to find and replace a multiple lines string in several php files across subdirectories.
So lets say im at root/dir1/dir2/ , when i execute the script it should search and replace a piece of code on php files inside this directory and its subdirectories.
The closest i found i think it was this:
Code:
Paste this into a file ‘renall’ and make it executable (chmod u+x renall): #!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 3 ] ; then
echo -e “Wrong number of parameters.”
echo -e “Usage:”
echo -e ” renall ‘filepat’ findstring replacestring\n”
exit 1
fi
#echo $1 $2 $3
for i in `find . -name “$1″ -exec grep -l “$2″ {} \;`
do
mv “$i” “$i.sedsave”
sed “s/$2/$3/g” “$i.sedsave” > “$i”
echo $i
#rm “$i.sedsave”
done
But the string i need to find and replace have multiple lines, so i dont know how to put it in this script.
Also i dont know how to save and execute this script
EDIT: AH and by the way, i need to only DELETE the piece of code from these PHP files, i dont need to replace it with something else...
Could anyone please give me detailed instructions on this ?
hi guys,
Suppose you have 100 files in a folder and you want to replace all occurances of a word say "ABCD" in those files with "DCBA", how would you do
it ???
jatin (13 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)
... (2 Replies)
i have to search a string and replace with multiple lines.
example
Input
echo 'sample text'
echo 'college days'
output
echo 'sample text'
echo 'information on students'
echo 'emp number'
echo 'holidays'
i have to search a word college and replace the multiple lines
i have... (1 Reply)
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)
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)
Hi,
I am creating a script to do a find and replace single/multiple lines in a file with any number of lines.
I have written a logic in a script that reads a reference file say "findrep" and populates two variables $FIND and $REPLACE
print $FIND gives
Hi How r $u
Rahul()
Note:... (0 Replies)
Can someone tell me how I can do this?
e.g:
a=$(echo -e wert trewt ertert ertert ertert erttert
erterte
rterter
tertertert
ert)
How do i replace the STRING with $a?
I try this:
sed -i 's/STRING/'"$a"'/g' filename.ext
but this don' t work (2 Replies)
I have a list of files all over a file system e.g.
/home/1/foo/bar.x
/www/sites/moose/foo.txtI'm looking for strings in these files and want to replace each occurrence with a replacement string, e.g.
if I find: '#@!^\&@ in any of the files I want to replace it with: 655#@11, etc.
There... (2 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I need to replace a string with multiple lines.
For eg:-
ABC,DEF,GHI,JKL,MNO,PQR,STU
need to convert the above as below:-
ABC,DEF,
GHI1
GHI2
GHI3,
JKL,MNO,
PQR1
PQR2
PQR3,
STU
i have tried using code as:- (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: jassi10781
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echo
echo(1B) SunOS/BSD Compatibility Package Commands echo(1B)NAME
echo - echo arguments to standard output
SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/echo [-n] [argument]
DESCRIPTION
echo writes its arguments, separated by BLANKs and terminated by a NEWLINE, to the standard output.
echo is useful for producing diagnostics in command files and for sending known data into a pipe, and for displaying the contents of envi-
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For example, you can use echo to determine how many subdirectories below the root directory (/) is your current directory, as follows:
o echo your current-working-directory's full pathname
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o pipe that output through wc -w for a count of the names in your path.
example% /usr/bin/echo "echo $PWD | tr '/' ' ' | wc -w"
See tr(1) and wc(1) for their functionality.
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