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Search and Replace text can be a simple task using the text editors more basic. But what happens when you need to do that same task in multiple files at the same time?
Well, things get complicated there ... or not so much. |
In the following example, we will use sed to replace all occurrences of the word "mongo" with the word "aurelio" in all files that have the extension .txt and that are in the / home / user / myfolder / folder.
find / home / user / myfolder / -name * .txt -exec sed -i "s / mongo / aurelio / g" {} \;
That easy…
Before finishing, it is worth mentioning that some text editors allow this operation to be carried out using a graphical interface. Among others, it is worth highlighting Jedit, Geany, Regexxer, etc.
Great
I use the Gedit
gedit for multiple files ??? as???
How could I put a grep in between ai?
What I need is to do the following, search inside home for all the files that are called index.html and that contain the word "XXXXXXX", and replace it with "YYYYYYYYYY", as it could be done so that it only searches in the files that actually have the string?
Thank you so much !
I use the Gedit too, but thank you very much
You are missing the argument for exec. The correct code would be:
find / home / username / myfolder / -name * .txt -exec sed -i "s / mongo / aurelio / g" {} \;
Greetings 😀
You are right! Thank you!
I already corrected it. : =)
I just tried this (as ROOT):
find / usr / share / icons / ACYL-Allgray / -name * .svg -exec sed -i "s / 666666/000000 / g" {} \;
to change the color of an entire set of icons. The truth is that it is a very powerful command, normally this task would have taken me hours editing file by file.
Insert text in several files, according to the line number, in my case line 2 (2i), in centos linux
find / home // public_html / res / -name -exec sed -i "2i \;" {} \;
not all the code came out so I resubmitted:
find / home / user / public_html / res / -name filename.ext -exec sed -i "2i \ text to insert" {} \;