CODEWITHSUNDEEP
phpregexeclipseunix
NEW2WEB
NEW2WEB

Reputation: 503

unix search/replace with wildcard

I'm not very good at scripting, nor am I very good at regex, so I'm not sure how to accomplish this.

what I'd like to do is run a unix command that will search within current (and sub-) directories for a particular pattern match, and replace it with another string/pattern.

Lots of articles on this, but my 'twist' is that the match must have a wildcard - which will be reproduced in the replacement string.

I'm resorting to this method as I don't think I can get this specific with Eclipse (for PHP). If this CAN be done with Eclipse, please let me know.

For instance, here is the pattern I'm looking for: ::$_<sometext> and I wish to replace it with ::myFunction('<sometext>').

Here is an example: echo UserClass::$_thevariable; turns into: echo UserClass::getVar('thevariable');.

Thanks for your help

Upvotes: 0

Views: 29

Answers (1)

Gavriel
Gavriel

Reputation: 19237

find . -exec sed -i -E -e "s/::[$]_([a-zA-Z]+)/::getVar('\1')/g" {} \;

But be careful with sed -i, it replaces files in place... Also this works for the specified search/replace strings, it might be more compicated if you need to escape things

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions