Search and replace text in multiple files. 1

I had a bunch of html files where a particular style sheet inclusion had to be removed from about 500 odd html files.

Knew this could be done through an sed script , but found a better one using perl from here.

export OLD_TEXT='<link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”style.css”>’

export NEW_TEXT=’some new text’

and use it in the perl command as follows.

perl -w -i -p -e “s/$OLD_TEXT/$NEW_TEXT/g” *.html

or use it against all .html files from the current directory using find and xargs

find . -name “*.html” | xargs -i perl -w -i -p -e “s/$OLD_TEXT/$NEW_TEXT/g” {}

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One comment on “Search and replace text in multiple files.

  1. Reply Mihir Patel Sep 23,2009 5:10 pm

    Hello,

    It’s nice tutorial. It’s good to share from you. It will help a lot to search text from multiple files.

    Thanks for sharing it….

    Regards,
    Mihir
    ask4itsolutions.com

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