General :: Find And Replace Command For Whole Directory

Aug 17, 2011

Is there any command in Linux which will find a particular word in all the files in a given directory and the folders below and replace it with a new word?

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General :: Command To Find / Replace In A Text File?

Feb 11, 2011

I have an SQL dump, file.sql that has many references to a particular domain, d1.com. I would like to run a command that can replace every occurrence of d1.com with d2.com. I've tried looking into sed before but the man pages are quite daunting.

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General :: Find Directory Older Than X And Mv Directory With Sub Files Command?

Jul 13, 2011

I'm quite new to linux but I have configured a simple ftp server and it's working great. I have a FTP-Shared folder with upload and download subfolders. Under upload's and download's I have identical category subfolders like mp3's, movies, software etc. in both. As the guy's upload, I would like to create a line crontab where I can move all the content under /FTP-Shared/upload/mp3/* older than 14 day's to FTP-Shared/downloads/mp3/ recursively (Like in cp command), but the timestamp must be searched on the first directory and not sub files example: /mp3/Club Dance/CD1/Hallo world.mp3This is how far I got:[root@clients ~]# /usr/bin/find /FTP_Shared/upload/Mp3s/ -depth -mindepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec mv -f {} /FTP_Shared/download/Mp3s/ ;This command moves the directory and files, but it is not recursively

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Ubuntu :: Vim Find/replace Command Using Wildcards?

Aug 1, 2010

I'm struggling with the Vim find/replace command using wildcards.

I have several, big html files with lots of instances of: <p stuffiwanttoremove>

I've been trying the Vim command: %s/<p *>/<p>/ge

but it doesn't seem to work.

Does anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

I realise there may be alternatives to this (eg a bash script)

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Server :: Using Find And Replace Command In Perl Script?

Jun 15, 2011

I have one perl sctipt which generate cfg file with ^M in all the EOL. I need to remove the ^M from the cfg file. How can i remove that from the perl script itself. I have tried the following unix command in perl script,

system("perl -pi -e 's/^M//g' *.cfg");

It doesn't work.

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Programming :: Find And Replace Using Passing A Parameter To Said Command?

Apr 9, 2010

I am trying following script can I do this or is there a way to do find and replace the replacing word is dynamic input by user

echo -n "Enter name:"
read RP_USER
sed 's/text1/$RP_USER/' /home/user/file1 > /home/user/file2

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Ubuntu :: Bash Command To Find And Replace Text In File

Apr 3, 2010

I'm having problems with Tomboy. I have a few hundred note files and I need to go through all of them and replace all instances of "<link:broken>a</link:broken>" with "a". Is there a bash command I can use to do this?

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General :: Find All Occurrences Of "string1" In Files Under A Directory And Replace Them With "string2"?

Jul 29, 2011

In linux, what's a good way to find all occurrences of "string1" in files under a directory and replace them with "string2"?

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Ubuntu :: Command Line - Find And Replace Text Within Multiple Files?

Aug 28, 2010

I'm pretty sure this is doable from the command line, but my CLI skills have degraded a lot since my pre-Y2K admin days. The goal is to search all the files in the directory for a very long string of text and replace it with another string of text. The text being searched for is my Google Adsense code (which will be stripped from my website) and it will be replaced with a placeholder so I can easily tack something else in there in the future.

Seeing how I have that long snip of code on about 100 pages, automating the process would make life easier.
If I was searching for a single word, I can see ways to do this.
If I paste the code I'm searching for into a text file, is there a way to:
find (contents of oldstring.txt) and replace with (contents of newstring.txt)?

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Programming :: Find And Replace A String In A File Using Perl Command From Bash Script?

Feb 14, 2011

I wanted to find and replace a string from a perl file. I have written a script in bash which runs the following command.

perl -pi -e "s/$findstring/$replacestring/" testfile
where as $findstring = print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
and $replaceString = $line = join ' ', split ' ', $line; print F_WC_TMP"$line
";

But when I am running the above command, i think it is replacing the $findstring with the above mentioned string and hence it contains a $line, it is looking for the variable $line and not finding the exact string. I am confused about how to search for a string that contains $ in it and replace it with another $string.

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Programming :: Command For Find/Replace In Text Files (inc. Files In Sub-folders)?

Oct 11, 2010

I found this command that works great finding and replacing a simple string to another in files located in that folder and all sub-folders.

Code: find . -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/OldText/NewText/g'

The problem I have is that I need to replace a more complex string, like this: Old string: /mnt/stor6-wc2-dfw1/627896/982574/ New string: /mnt/stor8-wc2-dfw1/369587/302589/ There I don't know how to do it... since the / is what separates the old from the new strings, and the strings that I want to replace have / in it. Also, I would like to know how to specify under what folder replace the files, for example, I want that it search/replaces all files under /var/www/mysite/htdocs folder.

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General :: Find Or Replace Without Using Sed?

Dec 27, 2010

I am working on writing a script for find and replace a string using sed.But know I want to write without using sed.

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OpenSUSE :: Command (du) To Find Out How Much Space A Directory Takes Up?

Jul 10, 2010

I learned a little bit about this command (du) to find out how much space a directory takes up but what I want to know is can you tell it to exclude directories?For instance, I wanted to know how large the / directory is on my old suse10 drive but I want to exclude /home (/home was not a separate partition on that drive).

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General :: Find And Replace String?

Jul 26, 2011

I need to find this "TYPE=MyISAM;" and replace with "ENGINE=MyISAM;" in all .sql files in a directory. How can I do this with sed?

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General :: Sed Find And Replace With Wildcard?

Aug 5, 2011

I would like help with modifying the following content:

toolbox/perl/man/man3/ExtUtils::Command.3::Command.3 differ
toolbox/perl/man/man3/ExtUtils::Command::MM.3::Command::MM.3 differ
I would like the content to be changed to:
toolbox/perl/man/man3/ExtUtils::Command.3
toolbox/perl/man/man3/ExtUtils::Command::MM.3

I was not sure how to tell sed what to look for? I tried the following but it did not work. sed -i 's/::* differ//g' mandiff.log

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General :: Find And Replace Text From Many Files In A Dir?

Jul 8, 2010

I have a many directories each with about 20 html files inside. All the files have .html ext. What I'm hoping is possible is from command line to find some text in each one and replace it with some other text.

Basically what I want to replace is;

/awstats/
with
awstats/

I can do this easily with dreamweaver or some other application but because I have 960 pages total to do I'm hoping to do it this way.

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General :: Script To Traverse Into Sub-directory And Replace Line Of File Inside Zip?

Aug 27, 2010

I can't get sed to actually change the file, clearly there's something basic not working, can anyone point me in the right direction? I know nothing about scripting. Oh yeah, all the directories have spaces which was why so elaborated.

find . -name "*epub" | while read file; do unzip -o "$file" content.opf && mv content.opf content.opf.bak && sed 's/<dc:language>UND</dc:language>/<dc:language xsi:type="dcterms:RFC4646">EN</dc:language>/' < content.opf.bak > content.opf && zip "$file" content.opf && rm -f content.* ; done

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General :: Find & Replace String In Multiple Files?

Jan 15, 2010

After hours (literally) of searching the web and reading man pages, I think I've come up with the following:Code:find . -exec grep 'path/to/file' -print | xargs -0 -I new_path mv {this is where I get confused}So my code above is incomplete, obviously. In order to finish replacing the string, I need to mv the new file into the old file's spot. How do I do this, by incorporating it into my line of code?

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General :: Awk / Grep Or Sed - Find And Replace Recursively From Files

Feb 12, 2010

I am new to linux as well as awk, grep or sed. I need a find and replace command single liner or script that loops trough input file (file1) and find the particular input in file2 and add "!" in front of the found string.

Example:
input file: file1
g+h=o+p
a+b=c+d
file2 (file that need to look for)
a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf

Output file (file3 should look like this)
!a+b=c+d1e105
x+y=z+s5e105
!g+h=o+pabcdefg
t+r=w+qxvyderf

I have tried many awk and sed method of find and replce but it did not work the way I wanted. This is mainly due to my lack of experience in awk and sed. The program should loop trough file1 and find in file2 and output in file3 for the 1st (g+h=o+p) set then repeat the same process again for set 2 (a+b=c+d).

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General :: Sed Command To Replace File Extension?

Dec 9, 2009

how to use a variable in a sed command, but I can't get the output into a variable.

FILE=readme.txt
now i want to remove the extension of filename
so file woud be:
FILE=readme

my script:

NFILE=`echo $FILE | sed 's/.txt//'`
mv ../out/$FILE ../out/$NFILE
FILE=$NFILE

now when i run my script. i get this unknown character extensions in my new file(NFILE).

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General :: Text Manipulation Find / Replace Variable Efficiency?

Aug 27, 2010

What I have works, but wondering what is the 'right' way to replace the digits with the letters given in this loop? somehow use a case or multiple sed? i thought of a multiple sed or a case but couldn't get it to work

Code:

# ...
bcv=$(echo $line | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }' | sed 's/1/q/g;s/2/w/g;s/3/e/g') # and so on

Code:

while read line
do
bcv=$(echo $line | awk -F" " '{ print $1 }')
if [ $bcv == "" ]

[code].....

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General :: Command Line - Can Add A Shortcut To Replace A Path

Jul 24, 2010

For example, I always go to this path:

/user/something/somefolders/somewhere

but I don't want to type

cd
/user/something/somefolders/somewhere

in the terminal all the time, can I have some short hand to do so? for example, can I do something like

cd commandPlace

to replace the path?

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General :: Ubuntu - Replace A File In Jar With Command Line ?

Oct 18, 2010

I have a jar, and I need to replace a class in it, at this moment, I can only open it with "archive manager" and then drag and drop the new compiled class into the jar, but I think this is really boring, if I can do with with just a command ?

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General :: Bash: Replace All Occurrences Of A Word In The Last Command

Mar 9, 2011

Almost by mistake, I figured out you could do something like:

$ cp foo.data bar1.data
$ ^bar1^bar2

And that runs the same command with bar2.data instead of bar1.data. Now, how about if I have multiple occurrences of the target word? For example:

$ cp foo.data bar.data
$ ^data^index

It only replaces the first data extension. How do I get it to replace both?

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General :: Use Mkdir Command To Create 'local' Directory In /usr - There Are Error - Cannot Make Directory

Jun 16, 2010

I am a student studying computer science course.

Well, I am facing problem when doing lab questions.

I must use DLXLinux bundled in Bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net).

I am required to use the /usr/local directory.

In /usr directory, there is no directory named 'local' but there is one thing called 'local@'. So, when I try to use mkdir command to create 'local' directory in /usr , there are error "cannot make directory.....".

Look at my screenshot at [url].

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General :: Perl Command To Replace String By Line Numbe?

Jul 10, 2010

I want to know the Perl command to replace a string by pointing the line number. I know how to replace a string without pointing a line number but I am in need to replace only the two matching string in a file

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Sep 7, 2010

I have 4 Linux machines with cluster.My target is to find all kind of IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) in every file in the linux system remark: need to scan each file in the linux system and verify if the file include IP address if yes need to print the IP as the following

more /etc/inet/file.example1

182.23.2.4
255.255.0.0
10.10.1.1

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General :: Find/grep/wc Command To Find Matching Files - Print Filename And Word Count?

Sep 11, 2009

I am trying to do a find/grep/wc command to find matching files, print the filename and then the word count of a specific pattern per file. Here is my best (non-working) attempt so far:

wc `find . ( -name "*.as" -o -name "*.mxml" ) -exec grep -H HeightResizableList {}` ;

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General :: Command Line - Use Find To Find Text Files?

Jul 15, 2011

Is there a way to specify to find that I only want text files (and not binary files)? Grep has an option to exclude binary files, so I thought find probably has a similar feature, but I've been unable to find it.

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Jan 25, 2009

I know how to search for normal files but can you let me know " How to search for 5 setuid files on the system. Also explain, for each file, why setuid mechanism is necessary for the command to function properly"

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