Question

How would I replace one pattern with another for every file with extension .cc and .h recursively? Not sure if I need to prevent it from going into .svn directories.

first attempt

#!/bin/bash
for file in `find . -name '*.cc' -or -name  '*.h'`; do \
    sed -e s/$1/$2/g -i temp $file
done

Answer 1

If your project is managed under linux platform, You can do sth like that inside the bash:

for file in `find . -name '*.cpp' -or -name  '*.h'`; do \
     cat $file | sed s/$1/$2/g > tmp
     mv tmp $file
done

Each svn file has ‘*-base’ extension so all of them will be unchanged. This script will only affect to *h and *cc files.