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Reputation: 1

search same file in subdirectories and replace string in all of them

hi am a total noob in shell scripting, i want to make a findandfix.sh to search for a all files called file.xml inside a all directories inside FOLDER1 and replace a a specific line in all them that begin with <linex= with <activate=option1,option2

  FOLDER1
      |
      |---->FOLDER2
      |           |->file.xml
      |
      |---->FOLDER3
      |           |->file.xml
      |
      |---->FOLDER4
      |           |->file.xml
      |
      |---->FOLDER5
                  |->file.xml

i think it will require using find and sed but i don't know how to put them together to do the job.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

Gilles Qu&#233;not
Gilles Qu&#233;not

Reputation: 185831

If I understand you well : 

find /system/home/user/folder1 -name 'file.xml' -exec sed -i 's@linex=@activate=option1,option2@' {} \;

Make a backup before test, or remove the -i switch

Upvotes: 2

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