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How to search and replace text in all php-files in a directory and it's subdirectories

I am looking for a shell script that recursively traverses all .php files in a directory and performs a search & replace of a particular text pattern. The search pattern is quite long ( > 5000 ...
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Is it possible to nest a 'find -exec' within another 'find -exec'?

Something like the following is what I what I'm after, but my code doesn't work, no matter how I escape {} and + ; find ./ -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '.*' -exec \ find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f ...
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Deleting Lines Containing a Specified String in Different Files

Suppose there are two files in web/ named foo.php and bar.php. The 1st line of foo.php is "sdajgeSTRINGdsad" and the 10th line of bar.php is "gdfhu98324STRING". The task is to first locate these two ...
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Remove slashes/parent paths from filenames inside CSS and Javascript content

I need to go through all my css and js files and if there is a filename referenced that has any slashes (/) at all then the slash should be removed. What I want is: if any files referenced are ...
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How do I recursively grep through compressed archives?

I'm trying to find out what modules use Test::Version in cpan. So I've used minicpan to mirror it. My problem is that I need to iterate through the archives that are downloaded, and grep the files ...
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Looping through files with spaces in the names?

I wrote the following script to diff the outputs of two directores with all the same files in them as such: #!/bin/bash for file in `find . -name "*.csv"` do echo "file = $file"; diff ...
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How can I loop through lines of a file and find files matching each line?

In a BASH shell, I would like to take the lines of a file (eg pattern.txt) and find the files on my system whose names contain the patterns in each line of my file. So, I have the following for loop ...
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Remove files, which provided by pipe

I have this command chain: find . -print | grep php | xargs grep 'eval' -sl | xargs wc -l | grep ' [1-2][0-9] ' This provide me this output: 14 ./includes/js/calendar/lang/vgju.php 18 ...