For example, to substitute foo with bar
for f in `grep -lR foo`; do
echo -n ">> $f";
sed 's/foo/bar/g' $f > $f.tmp ;
mv $f.tmp $f ;
echo " done.";
done- 1) for loops on all files containing the text “foo”, grep -l only show the file name with corresponding text inside.
- 3) sed replace foo with bar in all file
- 4) mv save the modification (delete if you don’t want to overwrite the original files, the modified files is named with .tmp at the end)
- 2) & 5) echo: which file is treated