Replace the word in directories and sub-directories

[Qcheck]

Want to replace test with \\Test for all the files in the folder and subfolders.

Please advise.

[Prasanth Vattoly]

You can use sed command for this

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

The tool for this is sed

"sed s/indexnfweekly.html/index2.html/g ${filetoback} > $filetoback.bck"

What that little command does is change where it says indexnfweekly.html to a index2.html

find /directory -exec grep -l "yourtext" {} ;\ >list

while read -r oldfile
do
sed $oldfile > $oldfile.new > newfilename
mv $oldfile $newfile
done < list


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[Peter Nikitka]

Hi,

it is not clear if this renaming should apply to filenames or the contents of each file - please clarify.

- running such a command - whether file- or stringrenaming is performed will be desastrous in system directories
- what about binary files?

mfG Peter

[Qcheck]

Peter,

Renaming should occur with the word test with \\Test within the files in a directory and subdirectories.

Thanks

[Qcheck]

Hi steve,

Thanks for the reply. Can I use the script as follows:

#!/bin/ksh
find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -exec grep -l "System" {} ;\ >list
oldfile=System
newfile=\\System
while read -r oldfile
do
sed $oldfile > $oldfile.new > newfilename
mv $oldfile $newfile
done < list

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I want to replace System with \\System under /webdata/dev/ir/classes, where it has six directories in which the files which I want to change.

I really appreciate if you can help me out.

Thanks

[Qcheck]

Steven!

Erroring out at the following command:
find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -exec grep -| "System" {} ;\ >list

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You have *tranposed" the "\" and the ";". The syntax is:

# find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -exec grep -l "System" {} \; >list

Now, haveing said that, you *need* to limit your selection to only files!

# find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -type f -exec grep -l "System" {} \;\ >list

*AND* you can improve the performance by using a "+" in lieu of a ";"

# find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -type f -exec grep -l "System" {} \+ >list

Of course, non of the above address the presence of any binary files if they are potentially present.

Lastly, be advised that *every* file in your directory will be updated whether or not a substitution was actually needed.

Regards!

...JRF...

[Qcheck]

Thank you James, but didn't work, erroring out at find command still while running replace-word.ksh:

#!/bin/ksh
#find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -exec grep -l "System" {} ;\ >list
find /webdata/dev/ir/classes -type f -exec grep -l "System" {} \;\ >list
oldfile=System
newfile=\\System
while read -r oldfile
do
sed $oldfile > $oldfile.new > newfilename
mv $oldfile $newfile
done < list

-------------------
# ./replace-word.ksh
find: 0652-018 An expression term lacks a required parameter.
./replace-word.ksh[4]: system: not found.

#ls /webdata/dev/ir/classes
bean
db
exception
load
report
tag
util

All the above subdirectories in /webdata/dev/ir/classes have files which should be replaced from System to \\System.

Please help me out!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

You wrote "\;\" instead of "\;", For efficiency, I also suggested you use "\+".

There's more wrong with your entire syntax anyway. I think this is what you want:

cat ./filter
#!/ust/bin/sh
find webdata/dev/ir/classes -type f -exec grep -l "System" {} \; > list
while read -r oldfile
do
sed -e 's/System/\\\\System/g' ${oldfile} > ${oldfile}.new
mv ${oldfile}.new ${oldfile}
done < list

...NOTE that your post suggested that you want a double backslash. Hence, the syntax I used will give you that.

Regards!

...JRF...