Comments on: Bulk Editing Text Files

By: TheLinuxBlog.com

TheLinuxBlog.com — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:32:38 +0000

@XXX fair enough, next time I need to do this, I’ll have to try and work your suggestions in.

By: xxx

xxx — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:47:28 +0000

You don’t need to pass “-n” to grep (since you’re getting rid of anything but the file names). And if you pass “-l” (again, to grep) you avoid invoking the cut and the uniq…

By: tyboon

tyboon — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:04:50 +0000

Hello,
Another solution to compute the substitution with sed is to use the -i option (in place) :

grep function\_name * -n | cut -d : -f 1 | uniq | while read i; sed -i.bak ’s/function_name/new_function_name/g’ $i; done;

Moreover, it automically backups your original files with a .bak extension

Thanks a lot for your blog BTW