Comments on: Search and Replace for multiple files http://www.sysadminvalley.com/2009/02/02/search-and-replace-for-multiple-files/ I might as well write this stuff down so I remember it tomorrow Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:04:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Charlie http://www.sysadminvalley.com/2009/02/02/search-and-replace-for-multiple-files/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Charlie Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:42:52 +0000 http://www.sysadminvalley.com/?p=68#comment-25 Hi Matt, I wrote an open source program which allows you to run multiple replacements across multiple files. The link is here: http://www.neptuneweb.com/find_and_replace.html Hi Matt,
I wrote an open source program which allows you to run multiple replacements across multiple files. The link is here: http://www.neptuneweb.com/find_and_replace.html

]]> By: mshields http://www.sysadminvalley.com/2009/02/02/search-and-replace-for-multiple-files/comment-page-1/#comment-11 mshields Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:15:46 +0000 http://www.sysadminvalley.com/?p=68#comment-11 You are correct. One way to get around losing the permissions would be to change the "mv" line to <blockquote>cat tmp_file > "$file"</blockquote> You are correct. One way to get around losing the permissions would be to change the “mv” line to

cat tmp_file > “$file”

]]> By: John Pelster http://www.sysadminvalley.com/2009/02/02/search-and-replace-for-multiple-files/comment-page-1/#comment-10 John Pelster Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:26:51 +0000 http://www.sysadminvalley.com/?p=68#comment-10 I used an almost identical solution a few years back, and discovered one "gotcha"... If you are running a php script as a cron job (for example) and you need it to be executable, then unless your umask is set properly, you're probably going to drop your executable permissions when you redirect the sed output and then mv it back over the original. -- John I used an almost identical solution a few years back, and discovered one “gotcha”…

If you are running a php script as a cron job (for example) and you need it to be executable, then unless your umask is set properly, you’re probably going to drop your executable permissions when you redirect the sed output and then mv it back over the original.

– John

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