Replace string on a folder recursively via grep and sed
This is the script I created to replace a string on folders recursively Many thanks to serverfault users and othe person that helped me create this script #!/bin/bash # user input echo "Enter string to be replaced" read OLDSTRING 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/'/'\\\\...
