Question

I need to recursively search directories and replace a string (say http://development:port/URI) with another (say http://production:port/URI) in all the files where ever it’s found. Can anyone help?

It would be much better if that script can print out the files that it modified and takes the search/replace patterns as input parameters.

Regards.

Answer 1

Try this:

find . -type f | xargs grep -l development | xargs perl -i.bak -p -e 's(http://development)(http://production)g' 

Another approach with slightly more feedback:

find . -type f | while read file do     grep development $file && echo 'modifying $file' && perl -i.bak -p -e 's(http://development)(http://prodution)g' $file done 

Hope this helps.