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January 19, 2012 13:09
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Global find and replace using ack
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function substitute { | |
if [ -z "$1" -o -z "$2" ]; then | |
echo "Usage: substitue FROM_STRING TO_STRING [OPTION]..." | |
echo | |
echo "Replace all occurances of FROM_STRING (a sed-compatible regular" | |
echo "expression) with TO_STRING in all files for which ack-grep matches" | |
echo "FROM_STRING." | |
echo | |
echo "Any additional options are passed directly to ack-grep (e.g.," | |
echo " --type=html would only run the substitution on html files)." | |
return 1 | |
fi | |
# Escape forward slashes for sed | |
FROM_STRING=${1/\//\\/} | |
TO_STRING=${2/\//\\/} | |
shift 2 | |
ack-grep -l --print0 "$@" "$FROM_STRING" | xargs -0 -n 1 sed -i -e "s/$FROM_STRING/$TO_STRING/g" | |
} |
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