[Gllug] Search and replace in a whole folder

[Matthew King]

raphaël Benard <raphy_02_4 at hotmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> You want use the functionality of Apache for make your task. But for
> severals other reasons you may need a script which do a s&r(search and
> replace).
>
> An example of script s&r with sed:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> val=`ls $1`
>
> mkdir newfolder
>
> for i in $val do sed s/$2/$3/g "$1/$i"> ./newfolder/$i done

for i in val; do sed s/$2/$3/g "$1/$i" > ./newfolder/$i; done

I'd also add "s around everything with a variable so that it supports
spaces and most other vaguely evil characters, but you don't even need a
script:

$ sed 's/old/new/g' -i.bak /path/to/files/*

But I'd rather go with Jason's suggestion of a separately included file.

Matthew

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