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# 8  
Old 03-23-2009
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Originally Posted by slothario
Okay, this works great on my local machine (running linux). But after logging into the web server, I find the sed on that machine doesn't have the -i switch. What should I do?
then use the code that i have givenSmilie
# 9  
Old 03-24-2009
Vidyadhar85, your code didn't seem to work for me. For one, it didn't look in any deeper directories (fixed with grep -lr) and also, the temp file is always blank, so it basically erases the contents of the file. How do I fix it?
# 10  
Old 03-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by slothario
Vidyadhar85, your code didn't seem to work for me. For one, it didn't look in any deeper directories (fixed with grep -lr) and also, the temp file is always blank, so it basically erases the contents of the file. How do I fix it?
sorry i made a small mistake
Code:
 
grep -l "<title>" *.htm*>file_list.txt
while read file_name ; do
sed 's/\<title\>/&My Website Name - /g' $file_name > temp_file
mv temp_file $file_name
done < file_list.txt

now it should workSmilie
# 11  
Old 03-24-2009
Actually, I just noticed that myself, but I still seem to be having problems. For some reason when I try to search recursively through the directory, it won't work for *.htm*, but it will for just *. See the output I listed below. What gives?

vine8:/afs/ir.stanford.edu/group/hopes/WWW/test> grep -l -r "<title>" *.htm*
test.html
vine8:/afs/ir.stanford.edu/group/hopes/WWW/test> grep -l -r "<title>" *
findnreplace.sh
test/form.php
test/mailer.php
test/test.html
test.html
# 12  
Old 03-24-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by slothario
Actually, I just noticed that myself, but I still seem to be having problems. For some reason when I try to search recursively through the directory, it won't work for *.htm*, but it will for just *. See the output I listed below. What gives?

vine8:/afs/ir.stanford.edu/group/hopes/WWW/test> grep -l -r "<title>" *.htm*
test.html
vine8:/afs/ir.stanford.edu/group/hopes/WWW/test> grep -l -r "<title>" *
findnreplace.sh
test/form.php
test/mailer.php
test/test.html
test.html
thats because as you see in grep man page whenever you use -r or -R option it expect a dir if you give * it will go through the child dir also but when you specify a file or group of file it will search in . i.e home dir only
 
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