How do you do a find and replace for all the files in a directory?

[DWHS.net]

It's been a while sorry but I forgot how.

grep /folder something *

I don't know am I even close?

Just to be clear, I have a directory with thousands of files and one term on every file I need changed to something else.

Thank you for you help.

Chaze

[PWSowner]

Here are some samples of batch file renaming that I saved from somewhere.

# change .htm files to .html
for file in *.htm ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)htm/\1html/'` ; done

# change .html files to .htm
for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)html/\1htm/'` ; done

#change .html files to .shtml
for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)html/\1shtml/'` ; done

A modification of this looks like what you want.

[DWHS.net]

Here are some samples of batch file renaming that I saved from somewhere.

# change .htm files to .html
for file in *.htm ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)htm/\1html/'` ; done

# change .html files to .htm
for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)html/\1htm/'` ; done

#change .html files to .shtml
for file in *.html ; do mv $file `echo $file | sed 's/\(.*\.\)html/\1shtml/'` ; done

A modification of this looks like what you want.

Perfect, thanks!

[haze]

You can also use the commands "sed" and "replace" which are usually just as effective.

[DWHS.net]

You can also use the commands "sed" and "replace" which are usually just as effective.

thanks, I'm not familar with this can you post a example for changing text for several files in a directory.

[isputra]

thanks, I'm not familar with this can you post a example for changing text for several files in a directory.

Yes, i would like to know it too

[haze]

thanks, I'm not familar with this can you post a example for changing text for several files in a directory.

This is where man pages usually come in handy

replace "old-string" "new-String" -- *.ext
replace "old-string" "new-String" -- *
replace "old-string" "new-String" -- filename