Replace throughout folder

[cmhunt]

Hi

Within our company we have had an ip address change to our internet server. There are many scripts throughout our system which use this ip which need changing. How can I replace all these values simply? I want to start at a high level folder and change any occurences in all files in all subfolders.

I hope someone can help.

Thanks

Chris

 

[mi294r3]

This should work..
This is all one command. The grep is to prevent a vi on files that don't contain the string.
example changes 123.456.789.10 to name.domain.com
Please tell me you are replacing the IP address with a domain name!!!




[tt]find . -type f -name '*'|xargs grep -lF 123.456.789.10 {} |xargs -t -I {} vi -c s/123.456.789.10/name.domain.com/g -c wq {} 2>IPchange.err[/tt]


Let me know if it works!
JRjr

 

[GreggW]

No, replacing 192.1.2.11 with 192.1.2.13 so I guess

find . -type f -name '*'|xargs grep -lF 192.1.2.11 {} |xargs -t -I {} vi -c s/192.1.2.11/192.1.2.13/g -c wq {} 2>IPchange.err

would work?

Thanks

Chris

 

[mi294r3]

Yeah,

That sould work, but you really should look into managing this in /etc/hosts.

JRjr

 

[cmhunt]

Hi

This creates the file for the replace from the vi just fine with lines like:

vi -c s/123.456.789.0/987.654.321.0/g -c wq ./sfa/runfile.run

which look correct but doesn't work when running.

Any ideas??

Thanks

Chris

 

[toolkit]

A slightly easier way:

find . -type f | xargs perl -i -p -e 's/foo/bar/g'

Where 'foo' is the old string, and 'bar' is the new string.

Hope this helps. Cheers, Neil