replacing text in multiple directories/files

[nationavon]

I need to know how to search through all files that are located within subdirectories and substitute "apples" for "oranges". This is on an HPUX box. I guess sed would work best for this. Not sure where to begin. Thanks in advance.

 

[toolkit]

See faq219-969

 

[nationavon]

The one-liner should be perfect! Thanks for your help.

Nathan

 

[pdagulb]

Hello try this,
this works for all kind of files in all working dir and subdirctories except source file in working dir.
we can modify it to work ony for subdirectory files and not for pwd.


#!/bin/ksh
#script to search through all the files in the subdirctories.

find . -type f >subdir_file
temp_subdir_file=`cat subdir_file`
for i in $temp_subdir_file
do
echo the filecont=$i

if [ $i != ./serandrep.sh ] ;
then
sed 's/oranges/apples/g' $i|tee $i
fi

done

#end of the script.


Regards,
Santosh.K.B