Change word in shell script

[Johuak]

Hello,
I have on script directory when i have all my scripts. There are about 50 different scripts and all of them have my manager's email address somewhere inside that script. Now i got new manager, so i have to change that email address.

Is there anyway i can cahnge that name without opening script.

 

[feherke]

Hi

For example if your script file names have no space ( ) :

for f in *.sh; do
  sed -i 's/old@example\.com/old@example.net/' "$f"
done

Needs newer GNU [tt]sed[/tt] implementation which supports in-place editing.

But better modify them all once for ever. Make all 50 scripts to get the mail address from the same file, let us say, config.txt :

managermail='manager@example.org'

#!/bin/sh

. config.txt

echo 'Hello boss' | mail -s 'Hello' "$managermail"

Feherke.

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