Recursive searching via grep and sed
echo "Enter string to be placed" read NEWSTRING echo "===================================" echo "string to be replaced is $OLDSTRING" echo "string to be placed is $NEWSTRING " echo "===================================" oldstr=$OLDSTRING #string to be replaced newstr=$NEWSTRING #new string to be placed echo "Enter folder path where we will find the string" read FOLDERPATH ### grep oldstring and output it in grep_output.txt STEP1 grep -rl $oldstr $FOLDERPATH > grep_output.txt ### since there might be spaces or special characters on filenames, use sed to enclose them with quote and output in sed_output.txt STEP2 #for i in `cat grep_output.txt` #do sed -e "s/'/'\\\\''/g;s/\(.*\)/'\1'/" grep_output.txt > sed_output.txt #done for i in `cat grep_output.txt` do sed -i "s/$oldstr/$newstr/g" $i > sed_output_new_old_string.txt done ## NOTE ## # 2013 latest ## STEP 2 Seems not wo