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add modification from comment to match how we get pattern/replacement from files

edited Dec 17, 2020 at 15:21

Try:

find . -name "*.php" -exec sed -i "s/$pattern$(cat /$replacementpath/to/pattern.txt)/$(cat /path/to/replacement.txt)/g" {} \;

where pattern is the pattern to search for and replacement is the text to replace it with.

The -i option for sed edits the files "in place". If you want to create a backup of the file before you edit it, use -i'.bak'.

Try:

find . -name "*.php" -exec sed -i "s/$pattern/$replacement/g" {} \;

where pattern is the pattern to search for and replacement is the text to replace it with.

The -i option for sed edits the files "in place". If you want to create a backup of the file before you edit it, use -i'.bak'.

Try:

find . -name "*.php" -exec sed -i "s/$(cat /path/to/pattern.txt)/$(cat /path/to/replacement.txt)/g" {} \;

where pattern is the pattern to search for and replacement is the text to replace it with.

The -i option for sed edits the files "in place". If you want to create a backup of the file before you edit it, use -i'.bak'.

answered Jan 17, 2012 at 9:37

Try:

find . -name "*.php" -exec sed -i "s/$pattern/$replacement/g" {} \;

where pattern is the pattern to search for and replacement is the text to replace it with.

The -i option for sed edits the files "in place". If you want to create a backup of the file before you edit it, use -i'.bak'.