Quoth Jack L. Stone on Monday, 14 February 2011: > Hello folks: > > No doubt this will be easy for those with scritping abilities. > > I have a gazillion files by the same name and each contains the same line > requiring the same change. But the problem is that they are in many > different directories on a server with numerous domains. While I could > handle the change using a single directory within my abilities, I'm unsure > how to do a search and replace throughout the many domains and their > directories. Don't want to mess up. Here's what I'm trying to do: > > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able > to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. > > Any help appreciated. > > Thanks! > Jack > > (^_^) > Happy trails, > Jack L. Stone > > System Admin > Sage-american > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
find /upper-dir -name copyright.htm -exec sed -i '' -e "s/2010/2011/g" {} \;
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