Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:07:59 +0000 From: markzero <mark@darklogik.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One-line global string replace in all files with sed (or awk?) Message-ID: <20050128060759.GA9405@logik.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <1098984237.20050128065616@wanadoo.fr> References: <1098984237.20050128065616@wanadoo.fr>
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> My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't
> recall who suggested it):
>=20
> find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
>=20
> One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting
> the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything.
> This reset the last modification dates for every file on my site, which
> wasn't much fun. Is there another command I could put between find and
> xargs that would filter only the names of files containing the string?
> (grep would do it, but grep outputs the lines found to stdout, so that
> won't do.)
>=20
Completely off the top of my head:
#!/bin/sh
=20
for i in `find $PWD -type f`; =20
do
grep foo $i 1>/dev/null;
if [ $? -ne 0 ] then
#do something with sed here
fi
done;
Not *exactly* a one liner but it *could* be if you want to make it less
readable...
:)
Mark
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