replace string in all the files

Hi vaibhavmishra,

try this

ls -R | while read i
do
     sed -e 's/abc/xyz/g' $i
done

Cheers!
Sunny:o)

oops

ls -R <name of directory to which you want to apply changes>| while read i
do
     sed -e 's/abc/xyz/g' $i > $i.new
done

moreover.. this will store modified files in filename.new

you can execute a mv in similar loop to replace old files with new ones

ls -R | while read i
do
     sed -e 's/abc/xyz/g' $i > $i.new
     mv -f $i.new $i
done

hi sunnycoder

it is creating al the .new files in current folder ...
can you please modify the script so that .new file gets created in the folder same as the original file .. ?

Vaibhav

ok ... i ran it on a test folder and it is working fine ..

do you want to share the points with glassd ? if yes how many ?

I will add my usual comment about checking the status before renaming the file, otherwise you can end up nobbling loads of files

sed 's/abc/xyz/g' $i >$i.new && mv $i.new $i

>do you want to share the points with glassd ? if yes how many ?
you have to decide if you want to split and the ratio too