Is it possible to search in a file using shell and then replace a value? When I install a service I would like to be able to search out a variable in a config file and then replace/insert my own settings in that value.
Sure, you can do this using sed or awk. sed example:
sed -i 's/Andrew/James/g' /home/oleksandr/names.txt
You can use sed to perform search/replace. I usually do this from a bash shell script, and move the original file containing values to be substituted to a new name, and run sed writing the output to my original file name like this:
#!/bin/bash
mv myfile.txt myfile.txt.in
sed -e 's/PatternToBeReplaced/Replacement/g' myfile.txt.in > myfile.txt.
If you don't specify an output, the replacement will go to stdout.
sed -i 's/variable/replacement/g' *.conf
You can use sed to do this:
sed -i 's/toreplace/yoursetting/' configfile
sed is probably available on every unix like system out there. If you want to replace more than one occurence you can add ag to the s-command:
sed -i 's/toreplace/yoursetting/g' configfile
Be careful since this can completely destroy your configfile if you don't specify your toreplace-value correctly. sed also supports regular expressions in searching and replacing.
filepath="/var/start/system/dir1"
searchstring="test"
replacestring="test01"
i=0;
for file in $(grep -l -R $searchstring $filepath)
do
cp $file $file.bak
sed -e "s/$searchstring/$replacestring/ig" $file > tempfile.tmp
mv tempfile.tmp $file
let i++;
echo "Modified: " $file
done
通常使用像awk或sed这样的工具。
$ sed -i 's/ugly/beautiful/g' /home/bruno/old-friends/sue.txt
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