Replace some text in a bunch of files with golang

walk.go

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"strings"
)

func visit(path string, fi os.FileInfo, err error) error {

	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if !!fi.IsDir() {
		return nil //
	}

	matched, err := filepath.Match("*.txt", fi.Name())

	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
		return err
	}

	if matched {
		read, err := ioutil.ReadFile(path)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}
		//fmt.Println(string(read))
		fmt.Println(path)

		newContents := strings.Replace(string(read), "old", "new", -1)

		fmt.Println(newContents)

		err = ioutil.WriteFile(path, []byte(newContents), 0)
		if err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}

	}

	return nil
}

func main() {
	err := filepath.Walk(".", visit)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
}

Thanks too ;o) is working like a charm ....

👍

Cool, Very helpful 👍

what is the 0 doing in the mode ?

I think the fileMode being 0 is just setting the permission bits, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28969455/golang-properly-instantiate-os-filemode

Thanks!!

TY for this!

Thank you! 👍

Thanks a bunch! 👍

Perfect. it works very well! #TY

Asking, at line if !!fi.IsDir(), vscode give alert negating a boolean twice has no effect; is this a typo?. Is it correct? Or I can just replace with if fi.IsDir()? Thanks!

How to replace old and new with parameter?

Thanks!

it's beautiful how an old code still works, thanks