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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bulk Find and Replace Post 302677639 by Vryali on Thursday 26th of July 2012 12:11:33 PM
Old 07-26-2012
Lots of whats to do this, but simply done like this:

Code:
$ cat *.html | sed 's/\(.*taskid=\)\([0-9]*\)\(.*$\)/\133528\3/g' 
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=33528&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=33528&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=33528&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=33528&task.out

So in a find statement:
Code:
for file in $(find /dir -name '*.html' -print); do
    sed 's/\(.*taskid=\)\([0-9]*\)\(.*$\)/\133528\3/g' ${file} > /tmp/tmp.file
    mv /tmp/tmp.file ${file}
    # If needed to fix permissions and ownership
    chmod XXX ${file}
    chown X:X ${file}
done

Edit:

You were close on your sed statement, here's what you probably were going for that route:
Code:
$ cat *.html | sed 's/taskid=[0-9]*/taskid=123456/g'
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=123456&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=123456&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=123456&task.out
http://unix.com/cgi-bin/task?taskid=123456&task.out

Last edited by Vryali; 07-27-2012 at 02:51 PM..
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AUTHLIB(3)						      Double Precision, Inc.							AUTHLIB(3)

NAME

       authlib - Courier Authentication Library

SYNOPSIS

       courierauthconfig [[--ldflags] | [--cppflags]]

DESCRIPTION

       The Courier authentication library consists of two libraries:

       -lcourierauth
	   Authentication functions.

       -lcourierauthsasl
	   SASL authentication functions.

       courierauthconfig --cppflags produces on standard output any necessary compiler flags that are needed to access the courierauth.h and the
       courierauthsasl.h header files.	courierauthconfig --ldflags produces on standard output any necessary compiler flags that are needed to
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       auth_generic(3)[1], auth_login(3)[2], auth_getuserinfo(3)[3], auth_enumerate(3)[4], auth_passwd(3)[5], auth_sasl(3)[6].

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	1. auth_generic(3)
	   auth_generic.html

	2. auth_login(3)
	   auth_login.html

	3. auth_getuserinfo(3)
	   auth_getuserinfo.html

	4. auth_enumerate(3)
	   auth_enumerate.html

	5. auth_passwd(3)
	   auth_passwd.html

	6. auth_sasl(3)
	   auth_sasl.html

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