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# 1  
Old 05-13-2012
making find/sed to include directory names with spaces
how can i make find/sed to include directory names with spaces

the command is like this
Code:
for i in `find wp-content/themes -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l
-iE 'e'`;do sed -i -e 's/word1/word2/gI' "$i";done

but it skips one directory names with spaces
Code:
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/bougan_black_ssi_bold-webfont.eot: No such
file or directory
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/bougan_black_ssi_bold-webfont.svg: No such
file or directory
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/alternate_gothic_no2_bt-webfont.eot: No
such file or directory
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/alternate_gothic_no2_bt-webfont.svg: No
such file or directory
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/bougan_black_ssi_bold-webfont.woff: No such
file or directory
sed: can't read ./Nova: No such file or directory
sed: can't read pasta/font/agentcondb_normal-webfont.eot: No such file
or directory


thanks!
# 2  
Old 05-13-2012
Try a construction like:
Code:
find wp-content/themes -type f | 
while read i
do
  ...   "$i"
done

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# 3  
Old 05-13-2012
EDIT: Please read on. There is nothing useful in this post...
Last edited by mirni; 05-14-2012 at 02:51 AM..
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# 4  
Old 05-13-2012
thanks

when i just quote the find part, it says

File name too long



also another question, if i use a variable like
$word1, $word2

does that allow for words that have a slash?
like if word1 is domain.com/something
will it work if i use that?

thanks

---------- Post updated at 09:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 09:11 PM ----------

also do you know how to exclude a filename? i want to exclude the images like .gif, .png, .gif and all cases of it like .GIF, .PNG, etc.

this doesn't work

Code:
find /home/$user/public_html -wholename '*/albums/*' -prune -o -wholename '*/uploads/*' -prune -o -type f -not -name ".jpg" -not -name ".gif" -not -name ".png" -print |
while read FILE
  do
  echo "FILE is $FILE"
  sed -i -e 's/$BEFORE/$AFTER/gI' "$FILE";
done


thanks!
# 5  
Old 05-14-2012
Oops, please disregard my previous post. I spaced out -- using quotes in the for loop would treat the whole output of find as one thing: the loop would run only once, and it would contain everything. Sorry for misinformation...

Yes, certainly, forward slash is perfectly valid character in variables.
But not if you are doing something like:
Code:
sed "s/$word/$other/" file

and $word or $other contain slashes, sed will be confused. In that case, you can use some other character as delimiter for 's' command, like:
Code:
sed "s!$word!$other!" file

or
Code:
sed "s+$word+$other+" file

To exlude the extensions, do:
Code:
 -not \( -name "*.[gG][iI][fF]" -o -name "*.[pP][nN][gG]" \)

or
Code:
 -not -name "*.[gG][iI][fF]" -a -not -name "*.[pP][nN][gG]"

-o stands for OR, -a for AND, parens have to escaped, otherwise shell interprets them as "run in subshell"
Last edited by mirni; 05-14-2012 at 02:52 AM..
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# 6  
Old 05-16-2012
thanks
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