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Zak
Zak

Reputation: 7515

Search and Replace Linux

I am trying to do the following search and replace, but for some reason it's not working. I am trying to replace:

require_once('

with

require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']/'

Those are the exact srings (slash and single quote included).

This is what I attempted, however I can't get it to work:

find ./ -type f -readable -writable -exec sed -i "s/require_once(\'/require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . \'\//g" {} \;

What am I doing wrong??

Upvotes: 4

Views: 359

Answers (2)

tripleee
tripleee

Reputation: 189387

You need to backslash-escape the dollar sign within double quotes, otherwise the shell interpolates the (nonexistent) environment variable _SERVER, replacing it with an empty string.

Upvotes: 0

gregbeaty
gregbeaty

Reputation: 689

You need to escape the $ and / characters:

sed "s/require_once('/require_once(\$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']\/'/g"

Upvotes: 5

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