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Gqwill69: /* Find Execute */
2013-05-01T18:50:56Z
<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Find Execute</span></span></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>This script searches a directory recursively and finds/replaces text.<br />
<pre><br />
#!/usr/bin/perl <br />
<br />
use strict; <br />
use warnings; <br />
use File::Find; <br />
<br />
my $startdir = '/var/www/directory/'; <br />
my $find = 'foo'; <br />
my $replace = 'bar'; <br />
my $doctype = 'cgi'; <br />
<br />
print qq~Finding "$find" and replacing it with "$replace"\n~; <br />
<br />
find( <br />
sub{ <br />
return unless (/\.$doctype$/i); <br />
local @ARGV = $_; <br />
local $^I = '.bac'; <br />
while( <> ){ <br />
if( s/$find/$replace/ig ) { <br />
print; <br />
} <br />
else { <br />
print; <br />
} <br />
} <br />
}, $startdir);<br />
<br />
print "Finished";<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
=== Find by Date ===<br />
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -newermt 2007-10-01 ! -newermt 2007-10-02 -ls<br />
*To Delete<br />
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -newermt 2007-10-01 ! -newermt 2007-10-02 -delete<br />
<br />
=== SED remove line ===<br />
* Delete "SetEnv" and everything after plus 5 lines below<br />
sed '/^SetEnv.*/,+5d' file.txt<br />
<br />
=== Find Execute ===<br />
find . -type f -name \*.avi -exec mv {} ./ \;<br />
<br />
=== Rename ===<br />
Using "rename" utility to Uppercase first letter in each word.<br />
rename -v 's/\b(\w)/\u$1/g' myfile\ name\ here.txt<br />
myfile name here.txt renamed as Myfile\ Name Here.txt<br />
<br />
[[Category:Linux]]</div>
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