Try
then check the list. If you like it:
If you hit permission errors then you need to rethink what you are doing because you may have selected system files you should not have changed earlier.
You can run the file loop statement over and over until you are error free. Why? Because will not change anything in files it already fixed.
Check back here if you need help.
Edit:
Rudi beat me to an answer. I still think a little caution is good idea as well.
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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)
Hi,
I have a directory has DIR1 and the D1 directory has 200+ files.
I want change the string from "Bangalore" to "Bangaluru" in all files in the D1 directory.
Thanks (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 ,
I have a directory structure as dir and subdirectories and files under it and so on.now I need to find the files which contain the search string under every dir and subdir and replace .
my search string is like
searchstring=/a/b
string to be replaced=/a/c/b
please help.
... (7 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)
I have 100+ python files in a single directory. I need to replace a specific path occurrence with a variable name.
Following are the find and the replace strings:
Findstring--"projects\\Debugger\\debugger_dp8051_01\\debugger_dp8051_01.cywrk"
Replacestring--self.projpath
I tried... (5 Replies)
Hi,
I have a very large file that contains a listing of all files on the system. I need to create a listing from that file of all files that start with the following format: s???_*, whereas the '?' represents characters, so the file name begins with an 's' followed by three other characters and... (4 Replies)
I have tried just about every find and grep command possible and I cannot find these damn files!!
This is the problem:
On the node you just swapped in, there are 5 JPEG files whose names contain the word "intro" in some form. Find all five files from on the entire disk (i.e. from root /).
... (2 Replies)
Hii,
Could someone help me to append string to the starting of all the filenames inside a directory but it should exclude .zip files and subdirectories.
Eg.
file1: test1.log
file2: test2.log
file3 test.zip
After running the script
file1: string_test1.log
file2: string_test2.log
file3:... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Ravi Kishore
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
file::find::wanted
Wanted(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Wanted(3pm)NAME
File::Find::Wanted - More obvious wrapper around File::Find
VERSION
Version 1.00
SYNOPSIS
File::Find is a great module, except that it doesn't actually find anything. Its "find()" function walks a directory tree and calls a
callback function. Unfortunately, the callback function is deceptively called "wanted", which implies that it should return a boolean
saying whether you want the file. That's not how it works.
Most of the time you call "find()", you just want to build a list of files. There are other modules that do this for you, most notably
Richard Clamp's great File::Find::Rule, but in many cases, it's overkill, and you need to learn a new syntax.
With the "find_wanted" function, you supply a callback sub and a list of starting directories, but the sub actually should return a boolean
saying whether you want the file in your list or not.
To get a list of all files ending in .jpg:
my @files = find_wanted( sub { -f && /.jpg$/ }, $dir );
For a list of all directories that are not CVS or .svn:
my @files = find_wanted( sub { -d && !/^(CVS|.svn)$/ }, $dir ) );
It's easy, direct, and simple.
WHY DO THIS ?
The cynical may say "that's just the same as doing this":
my @files;
find( sub { push @files, $File::Find::name if -f && /.jpg$/ }, $dir );
Sure it is, but File::Find::Wanted makes it more obvious, and saves a line of code. That's worth it to me. I'd like it if find_wanted()
made its way into the File::Find distro, but for now, this will do.
FUNCTIONS
find_wanted( &wanted, @directories )
Descends through @directories, calling the wanted function as it finds each file. The function returns a list of all the files and
directories for which the wanted function returned a true value.
This is just a wrapper around "File::Find::find()". See File::Find for details on how to modify its behavior.
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
Copyright 2005-2012 Andy Lester.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Artistic License v2.0.
perl v5.14.2 2012-06-08 Wanted(3pm)