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I have no idea really what I am doing but I am very good at copy-paste code from smart people

I found it a while back but can't get it now, I am looking for a simple command line prompt command to search and replace text in multiple files.

I have a website with a ton of pages and all links and such are referenced as 64.92.199.9, but I now want to have eveything under the domain www.honeybearbaskets.com

is there a one-liner (or something simple) that will search and replace the IP with the domain in all the file in the current diriectory?

Thanks for anything you can offer!

if file1 contains 64.92.199.9 replace that by

Code:

sed 's/64.92.199.9/www.honeybearbaskets.com/' file1

and get all the files containing 64.92.199.9 by

Code:

grep "64.92.199.9" *

in the current dir

so I would have to type the sed command for every single file?

isn't there a foreach file (*.htm) kind of command?

Thanks though, it helps!

do looping like this ...

Code:

for file in `grep "64.92.199.9" *`
do
   sed 's/64.92.199.9/www.honeybearbaskets.com/' $file > tmp
   mv tmp $file
done

Note : Above code not tested.

I just wanted to post the code I ended up using

Code:

for file in *.htm
do
sed 's/honeybearbasket.com/honeybearbaskets.com/' $file > $file.new
mv $file $file.old
mv $file.new $file
rm $file.old
done

Thank you for your help!

some more optimization based on a code Ygor put in on 1 of the threads here ... keeps the modified file permissions and ownerships same as original file ...

Code:

for file in *.htm
do
    cp $file $file.tmp
    sed 's/honeybearbasket.com/honeybearbaskets.com/' $file.tmp > $file
    rm $file.tmp
done

I am sure this is a known issue. When I changing a string in all xml files, it is truncating the file after it successfully changing the string in all files...

Any workaround?

Here is the code:

for files in *.xml;
do
mv $files $files.old
sed 's/OLD_STRING/NEW_STRING/g' $files.old > $files
rm -f $files.old
done