Replace a text by shell programming

Question

i have more than 1000 files and want to replace a special text in all of them with another phrase.

how can i do it by shell script in linux?

Answer 1

Use sed.

Answer 2

Something like this:

for file in *.txt
do
    cp $file $file.tmp
    cat $file.tmp | sed 's/foo/bar/g' > $file
done

Answer 3

sed -i 's/old-word/new-word/g' *.txt

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-linux-replace-string-words-in-many-files/

Answer 4

You could also use perl:

perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' *.txt

Answer 5

Just bash

for file in *.txt
do
   while read -r line
   do
     case "$line" in
       "*pattern*") line="${line//pattern/new}";;
     esac
     echo "$line"
   done <"$file" > t
   mv t "$file"
done