I needed to replace a string in several thousand files scattered all over the filesystem on one of our servers. I used find to create a list of files that needed to be changed, along with their complete path and called it "list.txt". It looked something like this:
/path/to/file/one/fileone.html
/path/to/file/two/filetwo.php
/path/to/file/three/filethree.htm
/path/to/directory with spaces/filefour.txt
and so on...
I worked out the "sed" command to do the in place editing, and Zach helped me whip up a quick PHP script to read the contents of "list.txt" into an array and iterate through it. He was also nice enough to show me how to use "str_replace" to escape any annoying spaces that happened to find their way into the names of directories.
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<?php
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foreach($files as $file)
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{
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}
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?>
It's a handy little script that I'm sure I will find a use for later, so I thought I would put it up here.
