Question

I have played around with the find command and anything else I can think of but nothing will work.

I would like my bash script to be able to find all of a file type in a given directory and all of its subdirectories and replace the file with another.

EX: lets say
/home/test1/randomfolder/index.html

/home/test1/randomfolder/stuff.html

/home/different/stuff/index.html

/home/different/stuff/another.html

Each of those .html files need to be found when the program is given /home/ as a directory to search in, and then replaced by echoing the other file into them.

Is this possible in bash?

Answer 1

This should more or less get you going in the right direction:

for file in `find . -type f -name \*.html`; do echo "new content" > $file; done