Solaris

Dear

I want to ask about replace word ( sharing word ) in files ( more than one files ) in one directory.

Example:- I serach about ( ahmad ) in directory ( x ) i saw the results in ( 10 ) files ( differetn files ) i want to replace this word ( ahmad ) to ( Mohammad ) in one command. how i can write it ?

find . -name ahmad -exec mv - Mohammad {} \;

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

find . -type f -exec grep -l ahmad {} \; | \
  while read FILE
  do
     ed ${FILE} <<EOT
     %s/ahmad/Mohammad/g
     wq
EOT
  done

Make sure the "EOT" is at the beginning of the line.

This will also replace "ahmad" in words where it is part of the word. E.g. "mahmad" would become "mMohammad" or "ahmada" would become "Mohammada".

If words exist of which "ahmand" is just part of the word, you will have to make the search pattern in the "grep" command en the replace command within "ed" more specific.