topic Re: global change with script in Operating System - HP-UX

global change with script

Ravinder Singh Gill — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 05:59:28 GMT

there are approximately 50 scripts and are all in /home/sysscr and file names are *ftp*. We need to change uk\sunset to uk/sunset. How can I do this globally?

Re: global change with script

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:07:38 GMT

Is this uk\sunset present in name of file or in the contents.

I assume its present in contents.

for filename in `find . -name "*ftp*"; do
sed -e 's/uk\\sunset/uk\/sunset/g' $filenaem > new_file;
mv new_file $filename;
done;

Re: global change with script

Rick Garland — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:21:05 GMT

cat <$FILE> | sed 's/uk\/\sunset/uk\/sunset/g' > <$NEWFILE>
mv <$NEWFILE> <$FILE>

Can pipe through sed

Re: global change with script

Stuart Browne — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:24:58 GMT

And one with a perl twist:

for FILE in ftp*
do
perl -pi -e 's#uk\\sunset#uk/sunset#g' $FILE
done

Re: global change with script

Ravinder Singh Gill — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:36:57 GMT

uk\sunset is in the contents of the files. So if I change direcory to home/sysscr & do

#for filename in `find . -name "*ftp*"; do
#sed -e 's/uk\\sunset/uk\/sunset/g' #$filenaem > new_file;
#mv new_file $filename;
#done;

it should work fine yea?

Re: global change with script

Muthukumar_5 — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:38:08 GMT

Simply as,

# cd /home/sysscr
# perl -pi -e 's/uk\\sunset/uk\/sunset/' *ftp*

will do it.

hth.

Re: global change with script

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:39:55 GMT

Yup.

Now what do you prefer,
sed or perl.

I think perl one will be better.
But i don't know perl that's why i stick to sed. ;-)

Re: global change with script

Ravinder Singh Gill — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 07:52:57 GMT

Thanks