[wplug] replacing text within full website

[Russ Schneider]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Gentgeen wrote:

Save this as a file named "replace" at the top of your directory 
structure, then make it executable (chmod 755 replace):

#!/bin/bash
#
# usage:
# replace string1 string2
#
# replace recursively searches all files in the directory for string1
# and replaces each instance with string2

echo -n "Replace $1 with $2 along entire directory structure? (y/n): "
read answer

if [ $answer == "y" ]
then
	for FILE in `grep -r -s -l $1 *` ; do
		cp $FILE $FILE.new
		sed s#$1#$2#g $FILE.new > $FILE
		rm $FILE.new
		done
fi		


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