Lee Newton » find http://www.blogmeetsworld.com all the splinters of my mind Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:38:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linux Tip #1 http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/linux-tip-1/ http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/linux-tip-1/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 16:32:07 +0000 LRN http://www.blogmeetsworld.com/?p=238 This one’s really basic, but just because you’re an ace php developer doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve had a chance to discover all the ins and outs of bash and the linux command line. One of the guys in the office recently asked me how to make a change to multiple files in his code base [...]

Linux Tip #1

]]> This one’s really basic, but just because you’re an ace php developer doesn’t necessarily mean you’ve had a chance to discover all the ins and outs of bash and the linux command line. One of the guys in the office recently asked me how to make a change to multiple files in his code base with a single line command. Find and sed are your friends here. Since I’m a huge fun of doing as many things as possible with one liners, here’s the gist of what we did.

find . -name '*.php' -exec sed -i -e"s#search#replace#g" {} \;

Find the files you want, run sed on each one of them, edit inline with the included expression, done.

Big thing to note is sed using ‘#’ for a seperator and not ‘/’ . I believe the man page still talks about using a forward slash, but ‘#’ works.

The results from your find command are run through the {} so don’t forget that, and a find -exec must be terminated with a \;

Enjoy.

Linux Tip #1

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