On 2005-01-28 06:56, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My thanks to all who replied. I ended up using this form (I don't
> recall who suggested it):
>
> find . -type f | xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
>
> One problem, though: It appears that sed touches every file, resetting
> the last modification time, even if it didn't actually change anything.
Indeed.
> This reset the last modification dates for every file on my site, which
> wasn't much fun.
Oops. Sorry about that :-/
> Is there another command I could put between find and xargs that would
> filter only the names of files containing the string? (grep would do
> it, but grep outputs the lines found to stdout, so that won't do.)
grep will do. You just have to pass it the right option:
find . -type f | xargs grep -l 'foo' | \
xargs sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/g'
When passed the -l option (this is a lowercase 'EL'), it will not print
the matched lines. Only the name of the files that *do* match. Then,
once you have a list of files that really do match with 'foo' as a
pattern, you can xargs sed on the list to substitute whatever you want :-)
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