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Replacing content in files
| Posted by sysgallery, 07-22-2010, 05:38 AM |
| Hi mates,
I have 300 php files in different folders having one of the line in their content as 309919.xml, 630999.xml etc.., I want to change all these numerical filenames in the content to new.xml.
To be more specific, the content of one of the file as:
$output = file_get_contents("images/309919.xml");
in other file it is
$output = file_get_contents("images/630999.xml");
All I wanted is to replace as
$output = file_get_contents("images/new.xml"); in all of these files. Tried using sed, but could not able to do it.
Could you please share your idea?
Regards,
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| Posted by Loyal, 07-22-2010, 06:49 AM |
| Then, Try this:
replace "Old_var" "New_var" FinalFile.php
So, It will be something like this:
replace "$output = file_get_contents("images/309919.xml")" "$output = file_get_contents("images/new.xml")" *.php
and repeat it for $output = file_get_contents("images/630999.xml");
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| Posted by sysgallery, 07-22-2010, 06:57 AM |
| Loyal,
The numers are random ones with 6 numbers in each. It is a bit difficult for me to go through each and every file to check with the exact name of the file. Is there any other way?
Regards,
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| Posted by Loyal, 07-22-2010, 07:04 AM |
| Try this :
replace "$output = file_get_contents("images/*.xml")" "$output = file_get_contents("images/new.xml")" *.php
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| Posted by sysgallery, 07-22-2010, 07:21 AM |
| The error coming is
replace: No to-string for last from-string
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| Posted by Loyal, 07-22-2010, 07:25 AM |
| replace "$output = file_get_contents("images/*.xml")" "$output = file_get_contents("images/new.xml")" -- *.php
please try this?
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| Posted by squirrelhost, 07-22-2010, 09:24 AM |
| You could write a little perl script to recurse thru all the directories (under some specified top directory) and this can apply the change to all files it finds.
Or you can do a little recursive script in php also.
No doubt some bash shell wizards could do a one-liner to do the same job.
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| Posted by squirrelhost, 07-22-2010, 09:48 AM |
| well, here's the one-liner to replace all occurrences of 'Hello World' with 'hello world' in
all php files in all directories under the directory called 'test':
find test -name \*.php -exec /usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/Hello World/hello world/g' {} \;
just make sure you change dir to wherever you can see the directory 'test'.
and change the regular expression to whatever you want - and you may
need /usr/local/bin/perl instead perhaps.
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| Posted by squirrelhost, 07-22-2010, 10:06 AM |
| just realised I could also do this backwards:
perl -e 's/Hello World/hello world/g' -pi $(find test -name \*.php)
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| Posted by bear, 07-22-2010, 10:59 AM |
| I think this is having issues because of encapsulation. The editor would see this as:
"$output = file_get_contents("
")"
"$output = file_get_contents("
")"
As 4 separate things.
Single quotes may correct that:
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