Find and replace with sed in directory and sub directories
I run this command to find and replace all occurrences of 'apple' with 'orange' in all files in root of my site:
find ./ -exec sed -i 's/apple/orange/g' {} \;
But it doesn't go through sub directories.
What is wrong with this command?
Here are some lines of output of find ./:
./index.php
./header.php
./fpd
./fpd/font
./fpd/font/desktop.ini
./fpd/font/courier.php
./fpd/font/symbol.php
find ./ and post some sample output? And the directory strucuture please. edit: thanks!
Your find should look like that to avoid sending directory names to sed:
find ./ -type f -exec sed -i -e 's/apple/orange/g' {} \;
For larger s&r tasks it's better and faster to use grep and xargs, so, for example;
grep -rl 'apples' /dir_to_search_under | xargs sed -i 's/apples/oranges/g'
git grep -l 'apples' | xargs sed -i 's/apples/oranges/g'
xargs sed -i '' 's/apples/oranges/g'
sed with | rather than /, e.g. ... xargs sed -i 's|mduuid/apples|mduuid/oranges|g' stackoverflow.com/questions/40714970/…
Since there are also macOS folks reading this one (as I did), the following code worked for me (on 10.14)
egrep -rl '<pattern>' <dir> | xargs -I@ sed -i '' 's/<arg1>/<arg2>/g' @
All other answers using -i and -e do not work on macOS.
This worked for me:
find ./ -type f -exec sed -i '' 's#NEEDLE#REPLACEMENT#' *.php {} \;
*.php is really incorrect; you just got lucky that it didn't get expanded in the starting directory because you didn't happen to have any matching files there.
-name *.php on the find command.
grep -e apple your_site_root/**/*.* -s -l | xargs sed -i "" "s|apple|orage|"
I think we can do this with one line simple command
for i in `grep -rl eth0 . 2> /dev/null`; do sed -i ‘s/eth0/eth1/’ $i; done
Refer to this page.
Found a great program for this called ruplacer
https://github.com/dmerejkowsky/ruplacer
Usage
ruplacer before_text after_text # prints out list of things it will replace
ruplacer before_text after_text --go # executes the replacements
It also respects .gitignore so it won't mess up your .git or node_modules directories (find . by default will go into your .git directory and can corrupt it!!!)
In linuxOS:
sed -i 's/textSerch/textReplace/g' namefile
if "sed" not work try :
perl -i -pe 's/textSerch/textReplace/g' namefile
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