bin/tools/inlineReplace

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 # $0 oldString newString file1 .. fileN
   4 #
   5 if [ $# -lt 3 ]
   6 then
   7     echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <oldString> <newString> <file1> [.. fileN]"
   8     echo ""
   9     echo "Replaces all occurrences of oldString by newString in files."
  10     echo "(replacement for sed -i on systems that don't support it)"
  11     exit 1
  12 fi
  13
  14 oldString="$1"
  15 newString="$2"
  16 shift 2
  17
  18 for f
  19 do
  20     if grep "$oldString" "$f" >/dev/null
  21     then
  22         cp "$f" "${f}_bak"
  23         sed -e "s@$oldString@$newString@g" "${f}_bak" > "$f"
  24         rm -f "${f}_bak"
  25     #else
  26     #    echo "String $oldString not present in $f"
  27     fi
  28 done
  29
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