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I have a dev copy of a website set up that has quite a few hardcoded references to its live counterpart.
I would like to replace all occurrences of "www." with "dev." in all files.
I think I can use a combination of grep + sed, but I'm not sure how.
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first try to used sed on one file its sed 's/foo/bar/g' for replacing foo with bar.
Then instead of grep i suggest find. Use it to find all files that need changes (*.php, *.html, etc...). Then find have -exec option.
Please make backup of Your project before You start.
Maciek Sawicki
Posted 2010-03-08T15:33:38.430
Reputation: 1 072
2Use sed 's/foo/bar/g' for a global replace. – eleven81 – 2010-03-08T16:08:54.993
Thanks. You are 100% right. with out it in only replace only first instance in a line. I edited my answerer. – Maciek Sawicki – 2010-03-08T16:25:30.647
I'm trying something like this with no success so far: find . -name '*.html' -exec sed 's/www/dev/g' {} ; – None – 2010-03-09T15:12:43.373
FYI I ended up using:
find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/www./dev./g' – None – 2010-03-09T18:55:20.513
3Lol it's not programing question. It's basic power user skill. – Maciek Sawicki – 2010-03-08T15:52:03.550
@Maciek: I can buy that! – Josh K – 2010-03-08T17:56:32.753