how replace replace a particular string repeated for many times

[jayachandran.g]

Hi All

i have a file which contains a word "value" for repeated no. of times and i want to replace that word to "rate" how do i do.

replacing mainually is not that much possible.

Help me please

[john korterman · Accepted solution]

Hi,
try
# sed 'value/rate/g' your_file

regards,
John K.

[Ranjith_5]

Hi,

# vi file

the do the command

:%s/value/rate/g

this will do ur work.


Regards,
Syam

[jayachandran.g]

What to do if it is multiple files in same directory

[Franky_1]

Hi,

you could also try

vi

:%s///g

That's it

Franky

[Muthukumar_5]

In vi editor,

:%s/value/rate/gi

g - globally changes it
i - user input to do if yes no if no

Using perl,

perl -pi -e 's/value/rate/g'

Using sed,

sed -e 's/value/rate/g' > newfilename
mv newfilename filename

hth.

[Franky_1]

Hi again,

for i in `ls *`
do
perl -pi -e 's///g' $i
done

HTH

Franky

[Vibhor Kumar Agarwal]

One with sed:

for i in `ls *`
do
sed -e 's///g' $i
done

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

1. perl -pi does not have to placed in a loop. It'll safely do so for all files on the command line

2. More important. Nobody protected the "value" against being part of another word, like "valued" or "invalueable" (give or take the typoes). The pattern to be replaced, if needed to be recognized as a word, needs to be anchored!

# perl -pi -e's/\bvalue\b/rate/g' file1 file2 file3 ...

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

[Muthukumar_5]

For multiple files in the same directory then,

perl -pi -e 's/value/rate/g' /*

Multiple files in multiple directory then,

find / -type f -name "*" -exec perl -pi -e 's/value/rate/g' {} \+

You can change * in change depends upon file pattern like *.log

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

You can also use xargs + find + perl -pi do change pattern in multiple files in different directories as,

# find -type f -name "*" | xargs perl -pi 's/value/rate/g'

hth.

[Sandman!]

Yet another way of replacing the desired string on multiple files within a directory. ex works on the existing file so that renaming or moving the original file is not required. Also this replaces whole words only instead of substrings like "valued".

# for i in $(ls ); do
> cat - <> %s/\/rate/g
> wq
> EOF
> done

regards!!

[jayachandran.g]

Hi all
Thanks for all your valuble responce.
thank you.