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Amit Bhagat
Amit Bhagat

Reputation: 4300

How can I find & replace text in HTML, htm, PHP and txt files on a Linux server?

I would like to know how to find and replace text in all HTML, htm, PHP and txt extension files on Linux server at hosting provider. I can do SSH.

Text to be found:http://mydomain.example.com

Text to be replaced with:http://otherdomain.example.com/MyDomain

Please give me exact command and it would be much helpful if it can prompt for confirmation before replacement.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1042

Answers (2)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 54512

Here's one way using sed and a for loop. Use the -i flag with mv to prompt before overwrite:

for i in *.html *.htm *.php *.txt; do sed 's%\(http://www\.\)\(MyDomain\)\(\.com\)%\1OtherDomain\3/\2%g' "$i" > tmp && mv -i tmp "$i"; done

Upvotes: 3

Tad
Tad

Reputation: 944

sed -i 's/http:\/\/www.mydomain.com/http:\/\/www.otherdomain.com\/MyDomain/gi' *.txt *.html *.htm *.php

Upvotes: 0

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