Find & Replace string

[Nathan Kinkade]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:48:06AM -0600, antenneX wrote:
> Help on commands/script needed.
> 
> In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to
> interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" with
> "newone.011"
> 
> What's the best way to do this?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jack L. Stone

Are you talking about changing the name of the file itself, or a string
within the file?  If it's the former then a shell for loop work.  Maybe
something like:

$ for file in $(find /somedir -name "*.010"); \
	do mv $file $(echo $file | sed -e 's/oldone/newone'); \
	done

If the latter, then using perl, perhaps with the -e -i switches, might
work well.  man perlrun(1) for some tips.

Nathan
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