How to rename your website with a for loop
I recently found myself renaming a website and needed to change some common text in a bunch of php and template files. Here is the code I used to get the job done.
for I in `find . -name "*.php"`; do sed -i "s/old name/new name/g" $I; done
for I in `find . -name "*.tpl"`; do sed -i "s/old name/new name/g" $I; done
Sure a truly savvy person could have done this in one line but that’s just not as fun.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
[...] I’ve posted about for loops before and they are probably one of my most liked bash items. Here is another reason why. [...]