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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help needed with shell script to search and replace a set of strings among the set of files Post 302890314 by Amulya on Wednesday 26th of February 2014 07:50:21 AM
Old 02-26-2014
Hi Srini,

Thanks for the script. As the data for the type of files and the replacements will be dynamic, could you please let me know how can i parse the search term and replace among the files as mentioned in the algorithm using for loops.

Thanks a lot for the help .

---------- Post updated at 07:33 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:05 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by SriniShoo
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cat sync.log | while read line
do
F_EXT=${line##*.}
if [[ ${F_EXT} == "html" || ${F_EXT} == "htm" || ${F_EXT} == "css" || ${F_EXT} == "js" ]]; then
# sed -i 's/abc/test1/g;efg/test2/g;gfdg/test3/g' ${line}
perl -i -pe 's/abc/test1/g;' -pe 's/efg/test2/g;' -pe 's/gfdg/test3/g;' ${line}
fi
done

---------- Post updated at 07:34 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:33 AM ----------

Im using bash shell. scripting with .sh

---------- Post updated at 07:36 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:34 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by SriniShoo
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cat sync.log | while read line
do
F_EXT=${line##*.}
if [[ ${F_EXT} == "html" || ${F_EXT} == "htm" || ${F_EXT} == "css" || ${F_EXT} == "js" ]]; then
# sed -i 's/abc/test1/g;efg/test2/g;gfdg/test3/g' ${line}
perl -i -pe 's/abc/test1/g;' -pe 's/efg/test2/g;' -pe 's/gfdg/test3/g;' ${line}
fi
done

Im using bash shell. scripting with .sh

---------- Post updated at 07:50 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:36 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by SriniShoo
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
cat sync.log | while read line
do
F_EXT=${line##*.}
if [[ ${F_EXT} == "html" || ${F_EXT} == "htm" || ${F_EXT} == "css" || ${F_EXT} == "js" ]]; then
# sed -i 's/abc/test1/g;efg/test2/g;gfdg/test3/g' ${line}
perl -i -pe 's/abc/test1/g;' -pe 's/efg/test2/g;' -pe 's/gfdg/test3/g;' ${line}
fi
done

 

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