Programming :: Replace Occurrence Of A String In Many Files In One Command?

Oct 30, 2010

I used a command Code:

grep -r err_sys ./
its output is
Code:
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("socket error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("connect error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("write error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("shutdown error");
./tcpclitime.c:err_sys("read error, n = %d", n);
[Code].....

Is it possible some how to replace all the occurrences of word err_sys by printf.

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Apr 5, 2010

I know how to replace a particular instance (say 3rd one) of a word in a line using sed based on the sed one-liners. However I would like to replace a particular instance of a word in the entire file.

For example, here is a file:

Code:
John
Betty
Jack
Ron
Jack
Paul

So now I would like to replace the second instance of Jack (in red color) with "Rob" (for example). Not quite sure how to do that? I tried couple of things from here but they did not work.

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where as $findstring = print F_WC_TMP"$line
";
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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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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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For an example take a log file like this:
Code:
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2 msg
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The following command is close to what I want:
Code:
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But the awk command grabs the first restart not the last. If it was working the way I wanted I would see something like this:
Code:
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i use this script to get the time and date of back and fourth transactions for a particular execution id. I use a substr command on the 5th column to to cut the milli seconds off the time value. - otherwise the times would look like 08:30:04.235

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FIX <- Mon 3/1/2010 08:35:08

[code].....

anyhow - i append two sed commands to further clarify the direction of the message.

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[code]....

I tried using an awk gsub () command within the string instead of the two seds, but it did not work:

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the sed works ok, but it would be cooler to make the replacement within the awk command:

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Code:
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this works correctly and displayed the location of the files that have the string:
Code:
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[Code]....

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Quote:

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Code:

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Here's the actual line of code, which exists in a bash script:

Code:

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Code:

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Code:

Using this:

Code:

Which works great when there's only ONE of the pattern on the line. But in a case like the "actual line" I posted first, where there are two patterns, separated by a slash, only ONE gets replaced

Watch:

Code:

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