How to replace text within 600+ files.

[nat]

I need to replace all instances of wrongnameserver.com with correctnameserver.com in 600+ files in /var/named.

Could anyone help with a command that can do this please?

[easyhttp]

Hi
first copy all of /var/named files into temp folder

cat /path/temp/folder | sed 's/wrongnameserver.com/correctnameserver.com/' > ~/tmpfile; rm -f /path/temp/folder; mv ~/tmpfile /path/temp/folder;

if it works correctly, copy it to /var/named

[nat]

Thanks for the help. What a dumb mistake.

I found another solution that uses perl right before your post:

perl -pi -e "s/wrongnameserver.com/correctnameserver.com/g;" /var/named/*.db

[zentity]

Another way to add to the mix

/usr/bin/replace 'original text' 'new text' -- /var/named/*.db

[howudoin321]

Is it possible to use this method to replace a code with an Iframe tag in an html doc?

<IFRAME SRC="http://olddomain.com" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>

to

<IFRAME SRC="http://newdomain.com" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>

[zentity]

Absolutely

/usr/bin/replace '<IFRAME SRC="http://olddomain.com" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>' '<IFRAME SRC="http://newdomain.com" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1></IFRAME>' -- /home/user/public_html/*.html

[goodmove]

I need to replace all instances of wrongnameserver.com with correctnameserver.com in 600+ files in /var/named.

Could anyone help with a command that can do this please?

You will also need to increment the serial number in each zone file so the root nameservers can receive the new data.