bin/tools/inlineReplace

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2
   3 # $0 string1 string2 file1 .. filen
   4 #
   5 if [ $# -lt 3 ]; then
   6     echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-f] <string1> <string2> <file1> .. <filen>"
   7     echo ""
   8     echo "Replaces all occurrences of string1 by string2 in files."
   9     echo "(replacement of sed -i on those systems that don't support it)"
  10     exit 1
  11 fi
  12
  13 FROMSTRING=$1
  14 shift
  15 TOSTRING=$1
  16 shift
  17
  18 for f in $*
  19 do
  20     if grep "$FROMSTRING" "$f" >/dev/null
  21     then
  22         cp "$f" "${f}_bak"
  23         sed -e "s@$FROMSTRING@$TOSTRING@g" "${f}"_bak > "$f"
  24         rm -f "${f}"_bak
  25     #else
  26     #    echo "String $FROMSTRING not present in $f"
  27     fi
  28 done