spiralbound.net » string http://spiralbound.net my digital notebook Sat, 24 Jul 2010 03:47:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 PHP and Sed for String Substitution http://spiralbound.net/2007/12/12/php-and-sed-for-string-substitution http://spiralbound.net/2007/12/12/php-and-sed-for-string-substitution#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:17:51 +0000 cliff http://spiralbound.net/2007/12/12/php-and-sed-for-string-substitution 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.

PLAIN TEXT
PHP:
  1. <?php
  2. $files=file('list.txt');
  3.         foreach($files as $file)
  4.         {
  5.         $command='/bin/sed -i \'s/old-string/new-string/g\' '.str_replace(' ','\ ',$file);
  6.         exec($command);
  7.         }
  8. ?>

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.

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Adriaan, the developer of Ecto is blaming WordPress, while I'm sure the folks at Automattic would call it an Ecto problem... That's just how these things tend to work. Anyhow, it's pretty easy to fix if you make this quick change to xmlrpc.php.

Simply change this on line 180:

'categoryId' => $catid,

To this:

'categoryId' => (string) $catid,

Hopefully someone will go back to their code tree and make a permanent fix so we don't have to constantly edit this file every time we upgrade.

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