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# 1  
Old 04-17-2007
search and replace
I have a I need to replace all instances of the word mysite.com to maysite.net within the public_html web folder. How can I accomplish this.
# 2  
Old 04-17-2007
dannyd, try this:
Code:
for FileName in `ls -1`
do
 sed 's/mysite.com/mysite.net/g' $FileName > $$TempFile
 mv $$TempFile $FileName
done

# 3  
Old 04-17-2007
Would this replace the keyword mysite.com to mysite.net in all subfolders as well ?
# 4  
Old 04-17-2007
Quote:
Would this replace the keyword mysite.com to mysite.net in all subfolders as well ?
No. You didn't specify it in your request.
To list all files in your directory and sub-directories, replace
`ls -1` by `find .`
# 5  
Old 04-17-2007
Sorry I dont think i was clear in my question. I would like to replace all instances of the word mysite.com to mysite.net inside every file in the entire website.

I think your solution searches for files with the name mysite.com and renames them to mysite.net.
# 6  
Old 04-17-2007
No dannyd,
My solution with the "find" loops thru every single file in the current directory
and sub-directories and for each file found, it searches and replaces the string
"mysite.com" to "mysite.net".
# 7  
Old 04-17-2007
Sorry im not too experienced in unix. Smilie

Can this command be done on the command line or do i need to put this in a shell script ?
 
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