Linux / Unix: sed – How to replace text in multiple files?

Posted by Jiltin     19 June, 2009    12,737 views   

linux_penguin.jpgsed – is useful to find and replace text in single multiple files.

* Replacing foo with foo_bar in a single file.

sed -i ’s/foo/foo_bar/g’ somefile.module

o -i = tell sed to edit the file(s)
o s = substitute the following text
o foo = what you want to substitute
o foo_bar = what you want to replace
o g = global, match all occurrences in the line
* Replacing foo with foo_bar in a multiple files.

sed -i ’s/foo/foo_bar/g’ *.module

* Now you can run cvs diff -up > yourpatchfile.patch to create a patch.

Here is the sample: I always make the complex situation and resolve!

find . -name “*” ‘ xargs file ‘ grep -v directory ‘ grep -v image ‘ cut -d’:’ -f1 ‘ xargs sed -i “s/Santa Clara/San Jose/g”

This one finds all the files in current and below directories (find . -name “*”)

finds the file type (xargs file)

Strips the directories and images ( grep -v directory ‘ grep -v image )

Cuts the first part, delimiter colon, only for file name ( cut -d’:’ -f1 )

finally changes the all the files strings ( xargs sed -i “s/Santa Clara/San Jose/g” )

find . -name “*” ‘ xargs file ‘ grep -v dire ‘ grep -v image ‘ cut -d’:’ -f1 ‘ xargs sed -i “/Country :/d”

The above deletes the matching line “Country :” in all the files

Recent substitutions I made:

find . -name “*” ‘ xargs file ‘ grep -v directory ‘ grep -v image ‘ cut -d’:’ -f1 ‘ xargs sed -i “s/jkstablemid/dlg_outer/g”

find . -name “*” ‘ xargs file ‘ grep -v directory ‘ grep -v image ‘ cut -d’:’ -f1 ‘ xargs sed -i “s/jkstablelow/dlg_inner/g”

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July 6, 2009

Dont you think this might be easier:

grep -rl ‘old’ *.*|xargs sed -i ā€œs/old/new/gā€

Posted by AJ
July 6, 2009

AJ,

It is simple and works. I appreciate your response.
Great.

Thanks,
Jiltin

Posted by Jiltin
August 4, 2009

Hey jiltin – good on you for taking AJ’s criticism so tactfully. Don’t see these manners that much on the internets! Your version is logical and instructive too, so I learnt more from it.

Just by the way, the bullets above show in (firefox maybe) as o ie. the letter ‘o’. Might be confusing for some people. And…one other thing that might help – your captcha was coming up with words that included the ‘half’ and ‘2/3′ symbol – impossible to find. You may want to simply it a little. Hard to read captcha’s are bit khunty.

pete

Posted by pete
August 4, 2009

Pete,

We can resolve an issue in many ways. In addition, there are plenty of things we can learn from others and internet make us learn from each other. I welcome such constructive approach and sharing the knowledge. Thanks for your complements.

Regarding Captcha, I will soon try to fix the Captcha. Thanks for the feedback.

Jiltin

Posted by Jiltin
February 22, 2010

Thanks mate… your tips saved my day.. :)

cheers.

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